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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. Yes, that in a special manner is appropriated to Saints: Other parts of Communion (as eating together, relieving each other, duties of Relation, &c.) are so far to be used towards Unbelievers, that they are not so meet to be the distinguishing Symbols of Christians: But the two Sacraments, Baptism for Entrance, and the Lords Supper for continuance of Communion, Christ hath purposely appointed for such Badges or Signs of his People as separate from the World.d
Q. 9. By what Order are others to be kept from Church-communion?
A. Christ hath instituted the Office of the Sacred Ministry for this end, that when they have made Disciples to him, they may be entrusted with the Keys of his Church, that is, especially the Administration of these Sacraments, first judging who is fit to be entered by Baptism, and then who is fit for continued Communion.e
A. Christ hath instituted the Office of the Sacred Ministry for this end, that when they have made Disciples to him, they may be entrusted with the Keyes of his Church, that is, especially the Administration of these Sacraments, first judging who is fit to be entred by Baptism, and then who is fit for continued Communion.