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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. 20. But when experience assureth us, that f•• Christians can bear Church Discipline, should it be us•• when it will do hurt?
A. It is so tender and yet so necessary a Discipline which Christ hath appointed, that he is unfit for the ⟨p. 143⟩Communion of Saints, who will not endure it. It is not to touch his Purse or Body: It is not to cast any Man out of the Church for small Infirmities: No, nor for gross sin, that repenteth of it and forsakes it: It is not to call him Magisterially, to submit to the Pastors unproved accusation or assertions: But it is with the Spirit of Meekness and Fatherly Love to convince a Sinner, and draw him to Repentance, proving from God's Word, lthat the thing is a Sin, and proving him guilty of it, and telling him the evil and danger of it, and the necessity of Repentance and Confession and amendment. And if he be stubborn, not making unnecessary hast, but praying for his Repentance, and waiting a competent Time, and joyfully absolving him upon his Repentance: and if he continue impenitent, only declaring him unfit for Church Communion, and requiring the Church accordingly to avoid him, and binding him to answer it at the Bar of God; if he repent not.m
- lMat. 18. 21, 22. Luk. 17. 3. 2 Cor. 2. 7, 10. 7. 8. Joh. 20. 23.