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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. All Men, or most Men do not know it: Nor will it be known by a slight and sudden Thought; nor by blinded or self-flattering Sinners; nor by the worser sort of true Believers, that sin as much as will stand with sincerity; nor yet by such ignorant Christians who understand not well the terms of the Covenant of Grace, or have true Grace, and know it not to be true: nor yet by such timorous Christians, whose fear doth hinder Faith and Reason. But there is no doubt but we may know, and ought to use all diligence to know what Sentence Christ will pass upon us.f
A. All Men, or most Men do not know it: Nor will it be known by a slight and sudden Thought; nor by blinded or self-flattering Sinners; nor by the worser sort of true Believers, that sin as much as will stand with sincerity; nor yet by such ignorant Christians who understand not well the terms of the Covenant of Grace, or have true Grace, and know it not to be true: nor yet by such timerous Christians, whose fear doth hinder Faith and Reason. But there is no doubt but we may know, and ought to use all diligence to know what Sentence Christ will pass upon us.f
- fJo. 12. 47, 48. Rom. 2. 12, 13. Act. 17. 31. Mark 16. 16.Io. 12. 47, 48. Rom. 2. 12, 13. Act. 17. 31. Mark 16. 16.
For, 1. The difference between Heaven and Hell is so great, that there must needs be a great difference between them that shall go to each: And therefore it may be known: Christ's Spirit is not an undiscernible Mark and Pledge to them that have it. 2. And we are commanded to search and try our selves; and many Marks of difference are told us, and the Persons plainly described that shall be Justified and Condemned: And they are already here Justified and Condemned by that Law by which they shall be judged. 3. And what comfort could we have in all the Redemption and Grace of Christ, and all the Promises of Salvation, if we could not come to know our Title by them.