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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.
Qu. 1. How is this Article joined to the former?
Qu. 1. HOw is this Article joyned to the former?
A. This Article hath not been always in the Creed, in the same order and words as now. But the belief of [a Holy Church] was long before it was called [Catholic.] And it is joined as part of our Belief of the Work of the Holy Ghost, and the Redemption wrought by Christ: Christ by his death purchaseth, and the Holy Ghost gathereth the Holy Catholic Church: It were defective to believe Christs Purchase, and the Holy Ghost's Sanctification; and not know for whom and on whom it is done. To Sanctify, is to Sanctify some Persons: and so to make them the Holy Society, or Christian Church.
A. This Article hath not been alwayes in the Creed, in the same order and words as now. But the belief of [a Holy Church] was long before it was called [Catholick.] And it is joyned as part of our Belief of the Work of the Holy Ghost, and the Redemption wrought by Christ: Christ by his death purchaseth, and the Holy Ghost gathereth the Holy Catholick Church: It were defective to believe Christs Purchase, and the Holy Ghost's Sanctification; and not know for whom and on whom it is done. To Sanctifie, is to Sanctifie some Persons: and so to make them the Holy Society, or Christian Church.
Q. 2. What is a Church?