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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. Is the Spirit or the Scripture higher, and the Rule of Faith and Life?
A. The Spirit as the Author of the Scripture is greater than the Scripture; and the Scripture as the Word of the Spirit is the Rule of our Faith and Lives; and greater than our Spiritual gifts: The Spirit in the Apostles, was given them, to write (when they had preached) that Doctrine which is our Rule: But the Spirit is not given to us to make a new Law or Rule, but to believe, ⟨p. 128⟩Love and Obey that already made. As under the Law of Moses, God that made the Law, was greate• than the Law: But when God had made that Law their Rule, he did not after that teach good Men to make another Law, but to understand and obey that.
Q. 11. There are many that boast of the Spirit and Revelations; how shall we try such, whether their Spirits •• of God?
A. 1. If they pretend to do that which is fully done by the Spirit already, that is, to preach or write another Gospel, or make a new Law for the Universal Church, seeing this was the Prophetical extraordinary Office of Christ and the Spirit in the Apostle such imply an accusation of insufficiency on Christs a the Spirits Law or Rule, and arrogate a power never given them; and so are false Prophets.