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The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. As you have noted, that Mans Soul hath three Powers, Understanding, Will, and Executive; so our Assiance or Trust in God, extendeth to them all: And so it is in One, an Assenting Trust, a Consenting Trust, and a Practical Trust. By the first, we Believe the Word to be True, because we trust the Fidelity of God. By the second, we consent to Gods Covenant and accept his Gifts, by Trusting to the Truth and Goodness of the Promiser: By the Third, we Trustingly venture on the costlyest Duty.d
Q. 5. I pray you open it to me by some familiar similitude?
A. Suppose you are a poor Man, in danger of a Prison; and a King from India, sends his Son hither, Proclaiming to all the Poor in England; ⟨p. 80⟩