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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. 9. But how may we know that we are Sanctified by the Spirit?
Q. 9. But how may we know that we are Sanctifyed by the Spirit?
A. By that Holiness which he causeth: 1. When our Understandings so know and believe the Truth and Goodness of the Gospel and its Grace, as that we Practically esteem and prefer the Love of the Father, the Grace of the Son, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost, and the heavenly Glory, before all the Pleasures, Profits and Honours of this World, that stand against them, and before Life it self.
2. When Our Wills do with habitual Inclination and Resolution, Love and Choose the same, before all the said things that stand in competition.
3. When in the course of our Lives we seek them first, and hold them fastest in a time of Trial, forsaking the Flesh, the World, and the Devil, so far as they are against them, and living in sincere (though not perfect) Obedience to God.e