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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. 10. But it seems by their pleading described by Christ, Mat. 25. that they will not be past hope till the Sentence be passed on them.
A. But the same Text, tells you what Sentence certainly shall pass; and therefore that if they keep any hope it is not of Gods making, but their own, and ⟨p. 120⟩will be all in vain: But indeed those words seem rather to express their fervent desire to escape Damnation, than their hope. The wicked may cry for Mercy when it is too late, but shall not obtain it: Dives Luke 16. may beg for a drop of Water, but not get it.
Q. 11. But will it not be a long work to judge all that ever lived from the beginning of the World unto the End?
A. Gods Judgment is not like Mans, by long talk and wordy Trial, though Christ open the Reasons of it after the manner of Men; Gods Judgment consisteth of full Conviction and Execution: And he can convince all Men in a moment by his Light, shining at once into every ones Conscience: As the Sun can enlighten at once the Millions of Eyes all over the Earth. And Gods execution (casting all the wicked into utter darkness and misery) needs no long time, though it's continuance will be for ever.