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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. 16. Did not Christ fulfil the Commands of the Law for us by his Holiness and perfect Righteousness? What need was there that he suffer for us?
Q. 16. Did not Christ fulfill the Commands of the Law for us by his Holiness and perfect Rrighteousness? What need was there that he suffer for us?
A. The Law or Covenant laid on him by his Father was, that he should do both; and therefore both •s the performance of that Condition on which God gave us to him to be pardoned and saved by him. If he had fulfilled the Commands of the Law by perfect Holiness and Righteousness, in our Legal Persons, so •s that God and his Law would have reputed us to have done it by him, then indeed being reputed perfect Obeyers, we could not have been reputed Sinners that needed suffering or pardon. But Christs habitual, active and passive Righteousness, were (all the parts of his One Condition) performed by him, to be the meritorious Cause of our Justification.t
Q. 17. Why is Christ's Death and Burial named besides his Crucifixion?