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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.
Q. 8. Did Christ suffer the pains of Hell, which the Damned suffer?
A. The pains of Hell are Gods just punishment of Man for sin; and so were Christs sufferings, upon his consent. But, 1. The Damned in Hell are hated of God, and so was not Christ. 2. They are forsaken of Gods holy Spirit, and Grace, and so was not Christ. 3. They are under the Power of Sin, and so was not Christ. 4. They hate God and Holiness; and so did not Christ. 5. They are tormented by the Conscience of their Personal guilt, and so was not Christ: Christs Sufferings and the Damned's vastly differ.
Q. 9. Why must Christ suffer what he did?
A. 1. To be an Expiatory Sacrifice for sin: God thought it not meet as he was the just and holy Ruler of the World, to forgive sin without such a Demonstration of his Holiness and Justice, as might serve as well to the Ends of his Government, as if the Sinners had suffered themselves. 2. And he suffered to teach Man, what sin deserveth, and what a God we serve, and that we owe him the most costly obedience, even to the death; and that this Body, Life, and World are to be denied, contemned and forsaken, for the sake of Souls, and of Life Everlasting, and of