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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.
5. That it is the work of the Holy Ghost to Sanctify all Gods Elect; that is, to illuminate their understandings, to convert their Wills to God, and to strengthen and quicken them to do their duty, and conquer Sin, and save them from the Devil, the World and the Flesh: And to be in them a Spirit of Power and Love, and a sound mind: And so that the Holy Ghost is an Intercessor within us to communicate LIFE, LIGHT and LOVE, from the Father, and the Son, and excite in us those Holy Desires, ⟨p. 125⟩Thanks and Praise, which are meet for Gods acceptance. All this is contained in our Believing in the Holy Ghost.
5. That it is the work of the Holy Ghost to Sanctifie all Gods Elect; that is, to illuminate their understandings, to convert their Wills to God, and to strengthen and quicken them to do their duty, and conquer Sin, and save them from the Devil, the World and the Flesh: And to be in them a Spirit of Power and Love, and a sound mind: And so that the Holy Ghost is an Intercessor within us to communicate LIFE, LIGHT and LOVE, from the Father, and the Son, and excite in us those Holy Desires, ⟨p. 125⟩Thanks and Praise, which are meet for Gods acceptance. All this is contained in our Believing in the Holy Ghost.
Q. 4. If all this be in it, it seemeth a most necessary part of Faith.
A. The Perfective works of God are used to be ascribed to the Holy Ghost: This is so weighty and necessary a part of Faith, that all the rest are insufficient without it: Millions perish that God created, and that Christ in a general sort (as aforesaid) dyed for; but those that are Sanctified by the Holy Ghost are saved. It is the work of the Holy Ghost to Communicate to us the Grace of Christ, that the work of Creation and Redemption may attain their Ends.