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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. No: neither One Man, nor one Council or Collection of Men: For, 1. None are naturally capable of being One Supreme Pastor, Teacher, Priest and Ruler over all the Nations of the Earth, nor can so much as know them, or have humane converse with them. And a Council gathered equally out of all the World as One such Supreme, is a more gross Fiction of impossibles than that of a Pope.
A. No: neither One Man, nor one Council or Collection of Men: For, 1. None are naturally capable of being One Supream Pastor, Teacher, Priest and Ruler over all the Nations of the Earth, nor can so much as know them, or have hum•ne converse with them. And a Council gathered equally out of all the World as One such Supream, is a more gross Fiction of impossibles than that of a Pope.
2. And Christ that never so qualified any, never gave any such power. But all Pastors are like the Judges, Justices and Mayors that rule subordinately ⟨p. 134⟩under one King, in their several Precincts; and not like an Universal Viceroy, Lieutenant, or Aristocracy or Parliament.
Q. 10. But is not Monarchy the best Form of Government, and should not the Church have the best?