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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. Catholic is a Greek word and signifieth Universal: It is called Catholic because, 1. It is not as the Jews Church confined to one Nation, but comprehendeth all true Christians in the World. And▪ 2. Because it consisteth of Persons that have every where in the World, the same Essentiating qualifications, summed up Eph. 4. 3, 4, 5, 6. One Body, one Spirit, one hope of our Calling, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of all, though i• various Measures of Grace. And so the Concordant Churches of Christ through the World, were called The Catholic Church, as distinct from the Sects and Heresies that broke from it.
A. Catholick is a Greek word and signifieth Universal: It is called Catholick because, 1. It is not as the Iews Church confined to one Nation, but comprehendeth all true Christians in the World. And▪ 2. Because it consisteth of Persons that have every where in the World, the same Essentiating qualifications, summed up Eph. 4. 3, 4, 5, 6. One Body, one Spirit, one hope of our Calling, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of all, though i• various Measures of Grace. And so the Concordan• Churches of Christ through the World, were called The Catholick Church, as distinct from the Sects and Heresies that broke from it.
Q. 4. How comes the Pope of Rome to call only his Subjects Catholics?
Q. 4. How comes the Pope of Rome to call only his Subjects Catholicks?