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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. 5. How was Christ taken up to Heaven?
A. While he was speaking to his Apostles of the things concerning the Kingdom of God, and answering them that hoped it would presently be, and had given their Commission, and the Promise of the Holy Ghost, and commanded them to wait for it at Jerusalem; he was taken up as they gazed after him, till a Cloud took him out of their sight: And two Angels like two Men in white, stood by them and asked them why they stood gazing up to Heaven, telling them that Jesus who was taken up should so come again.c
A. While he was speaking to his Apostles of the things concerning the Kingdom of God, and answering them that hoped it would presently be, and had given their Commission, and the Promise of the Holy Ghost, and commanded them to wait for it at Ierusalem; he was taken up as they gazed after him, till a Cloud took him out of their sight: And two Angels like two Men in white, stood by them and askt them why they stood gazing up to Heaven, telling them that Iesus who was taken up should so come again.c
Q. 6. Had it not been better for us that he had staid on Earth?