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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. Those words have been since added to obviate their Error who thought Christ dyed not on the Cross.
Q. 18. What is meant by his descending into Hell?
A. Those words were not of some Hundred Years in the Creed: And since they were put in, have been diversly understood: There is no more certain nor necessary to be believed, but that, 1. Christs Soul was, and so ours are, immortal, and remained when separated from the Body. 2. And that as death being the separation of Soul and Body was threatened by God as a punishment to both, so the Soul of Christ submitted to this penal separation, and went to the place of separated Souls, as his Body did to the Grave.u
A. Those words were not of some Hundred Years in the Creed: And since they were put in, have been diversly understood: There is no more certain nor necessary to be believed, but that, 1. Christs Soul was, and so ours are, immortal, and remained when separated from the Body. 2. And that as death being the separation of Soul and Body was threatned by God as a punishment to both, so the Soul of Christ submitted to this penal separation, and went to the place of separated Souls, as his Body did to the Grave.u