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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. 12. But why may not the Pastors themselves give them to all that will?
A. Either you would have themf forced to do so, or to do it freely. If forced, they are no Judges who is fit; And who then shall be Judge? If the Magistrate, you make him a Pastor; and oblige him to teach, examine, hear and try all the Peoples Knowledge, Faith and Lives, which will find them work enough: And this is not to depose the Ministers ⟨p. 140⟩power, but to put it on another that hath more already than he can do: And a Pastor then that delivereth the Sacrament to every one that the Magistrate bids him, shall be a Slave and not a free performer of the acts of his own Office, unless that Magistrate try and judge, and the Minister be but a Deacon that must give account for no more, than the bare delivering it. But if it be the Receivers of Baptism, or the Lords Supper, that shall be Judges, and may force the Pastor to give it them, I have showed you already the profanation will make it no Sacrament, nor Church.
A. Either you would have themf forced to do so, or to do it freely. If forced, they are no Judges who is fit; And who then shall be Judge? If the Magistrate, you make him a Pastor; and oblige him to teach, examine, hear and try all the Peoples Knowledge, Faith and Lives, which will find them work enough: And this is not to depose the Ministers ⟨p. 140⟩power, but to put it on another that hath more already than he can do: And a Pastor then that delivereth the Sacrament to every one that the Magistrate bids him, shall be a Slave and not a free performer of the acts of his own Office, unless that Magistrate try and judge, and the Minister be but a Deacon that must give account for no more, than the bare delivering it. But if it be the Receivers of Baptism, or the Lords Supper, that shall be Judges, and may force the Pastor to give it them, I have shewed you already the profanation will make it no Sacrament, nor Church.