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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. 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⟩that if they will come over with his Son, he will make them all Princes; some say, He is a Deceiver and not to be believed: Others say, A little in hand with our Old acquaintance, is better than uncertainty in an unknown Land: Another saith, I know not but a Leaky Vessel, Storms or Pirates may prevent my hopes. Here are now three Questions: 1. Do you believe that he saith True? 2. Do you so far Trust him as to Consent to go with him? 3. When it comes to it, do you so far Trust him as to venture on all the difficulties, and go?
Again, suppose you have a deadly sickness: There are many unable and deceitful Physicians in the World: There is one only that can Cure you, and offereth to do it for nothing; but with a Medicine made of his own Blood. Many tell you, he is a Deceiver: Some say, others can do it as well: And some say the Medicine is intolerable or improbable. Here are three Questions, 1. Do you Trust his word by Believing him? 2. Do you Trust him so as to Consent and Take him for your Physician? 3. Do you Trust him so as to come to him and take his Medicine, forsaking all others? I need not apply it: You can easily do it.
Again, suppose you have a deadly sickness: There are many unable and deceitful Physicians in the World: There is one onely that can Cure you, and offereth to do it for nothing; but with a Medicine made of his own Blood. Many tell you, he is a Deceiver: Some say, others can do it as well: And some say the Medicine is intollerable or improbable. Here are three Questions, 1. Do you Trust his word by Believing him? 2. Do you Trust him so as to Consent and Take him for your Physician? 3. Do you Trust him so as to come to him and take his Medicine, forsaking all others? I need not apply it: You can easily do it.