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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.
CHAP. IX. Of the first Article, [I Believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth.]
Qu. 1. Seeing you before proved that there i• a God, from the Light of Nature, a•• Heathens know it, why is it made an Article •• Faith?
Qu. 1. SEeing you before proved that there i• a God, from the Light of Nature, a•• Heathens know it, why is it made an Article •• Faith?
A. The understanding of Man is so darkened and corrupted now by sin, that it doth but gro•• after God, and knoweth him not as reveale• in his Works alone, so clearly and surely as •• needful to bring home the Soul to God, in Hol• Love, Obedience and Delight: But he is mor• fully revealed to us in the Sacred Scripture b• Christ and his Spirit, which therefore must b herein believed.