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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. But why would Christ appear to none but his Disciples?
A. We are not fit to give God a Law: His works are done in infinite Wisdom. But we may see, 1. That they who had hardened their Hearts against all his Doctrine, and the Miracles of his Life, and maliciously put him to Death as a Blasphemer, a Conjurer, and a Traitor to Caesar, were unworthy and unmeet to be the Witnesses of his Resurrection: And its like it would but have excited their rage to have ⟨p. 111⟩tried a new Persecution. His Resurrection being the first act of his triumphant Exaltation, none were so fit to see him as those that had followed him in his Sufferings: Even as wicked Men are not meet (as Paul was) to be •rapt up into Paradise and the Third Heavens, and hear the unutterable things.f
A. We are not fit to give God a Law: His works are done in infinite Wisdom. But we may see, 1. That they who had hardned their Hearts against all his Doctrine, and the Miracles of his Life, and maliciously put him to Death as a Blasphemer, a Conjurer, and a Traitor to Caesar, were unworthy and unmeet to be the Witnesses of his Resurection: And its like it would but have excited their rage to have ⟨p. 111⟩tryed a new Persecution. His Resurrection being the first act of his triumphant Exaltation, none were so fit to see him as those that had followed him in his Sufferings: Even as wicked Men are not meet (as Paul was) to be •rapt up into Paradise and the Third Heavens, and hear the unutterable things.f