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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. 6. What must we learn to practise?
A. We must Practise the means to obtain the End of our lives, and that is our Obedience to Him that made us.f
Q. 7. Cannot we learn this of our selves without Teachers?
A. There is some part of this which Nature it self▪ will teach you as soon as you come to the ⟨p. 3⟩free use of Reason, and look about you in the World: And there is some part of it that Nature alone will not teach you, without a higher Teaching from above: And even that which Nature teacheth you, you have also need of a Teachers help o Learn it speedily and truly. For Nature doth ot Teach all things alike easily, speedily and surey: It quickly teacheth a Child to suck: It quickly teacheth us to eat and drink, and go and talk: nd yet here there is need of help: Children learn ot to speak without teaching. It teacheth men ow to do their worldly business: And yet they ave need of Masters to teach it them, and will erve an Apprenticeship to learn. Some things Nare will teach to none but good wits, upon diligent search and study, and honest willingness to now; which Dullards, and slothful, and Bad men each not.