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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. 16. But it is on pretence of being the Judge of Church Communion, that the Pope hath got his Power over the Christian World.
Q. 16. But it is on pretence of being the Iudge of Church Communion, that the Pope hath got his Power over the Christian World.
A. And if Tyrants by false pretences claim the Dominions of other Princes, or of Mens Families, we must not therefore Depose our King, or •athers.
Q. 17. But how shall we know what Pastors they be that have this Power of the Keys, and judging of mens fitness for Communion?
Q. 17. But how shall we know what Pastors they be that have this Power of the Keyes, and judging of mens fitness for Communion?
A. All Pastors as such have Power, as all Physicians have in judging of their Patients, and all School-masters of their Scholars. But great difference there is, Who shall Correct Mens injurious Administrations: Whether the Magistrate do it himself; or whether a Bishop over many Pastors do it; or many Pastors in a Synod do it, is no such great matter as will warrant the sad Contentions that have been about it, so it be done: Or if none of these do it, a People intolerably injured may right themselves by deserting such an injurious Pastor. But the Pastors must not be disabled, and the work undone, on pretence of restraining them from misdoing it.