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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. Because the Bible containeth all the who•• body of Religious Truths; which the ripest Chro stians should know; but are not all of equal necessity to Salvation, with the greatest points: And it ca• not be expected that ignorant persons can cull o• these most necessary points from the rest, witho•• ⟨p. 5⟩help: A man is not a man without a Head and Heart: But he may be a man if he lose a finger or a hand, but not an entire man; Nor a comely man without Hair, Nails and Natures Ornaments. So a man cannot be a Christian, or a good or happy man, without the Great, most necessary points in the Bible, nor an entire Christian without the rest. Life and Death lieth not on all alike. And the skilful must gather the most necessary for the ignorant; which is a Catechism.n
A. Because the Bible containeth all the who•• body of Religious Truths; which the ripest Chr• stians should know; but are not all of equal necessit• to Salvation, with the greatest points: And it ca• not be expected that ignorant persons can cull o• these most necessary points from the rest, witho•• ⟨p. 5⟩help: A man is not a man without a Head and Heart: But he may be a man if he lose a finger or a hand, but not an intire man; Nor a comely man without Hair, Nails and Natures Ornaments. So a man cannot be a Christian, or a good or happy man, without the Great, most necessary points in the Bible, nor an intire Christian without the rest. Life and Death lyeth not on all alike. And the skilful must gather the most necessary for the ignorant; which is a Catechisme.n
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