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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. He that by Creation is our absolute Owner, and hath made us Reasonable, and with Free-will, must needs have the only right and fitness to be our Ruler by his Laws and Doctrine: And we are bound as his Subjects to Obey him absolutely in all things†.
Q. 14. How gather you that he is our Father or Benefactor?
A. If we have our very Being from him, and all the Good that the whole Creation enjoyeth be his free Gift, then as he is LOVE it self, so he is the Great Benefactor of the World, but specially to his chosen faithful People: And no Man or Angel hath any thing that is good by way of merited exchange from God, but all is of free Gift: And we owe him our superlative Love, and and Thanks, and Praise.