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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. 8. But some say that Chastisements are no punishments?
A. They are not Damning destructive punishments: but they are Chastising punishments: For they are ⟨p. 148⟩evil to Nature inflicted by Fatherly Correcting Justice for Sin.
A. They are not Damning destructive punishments: but they are Chastising punishments: For they are ⟨p. 148⟩evil to Nature inflicted by Fatherly Correcting Iustice for Sin.
Q. 9. Is that an Evil which always bringeth greater Good?
Q. 9. Is that an Evil which alwayes bringeth greater Good?
A. It is no such Evil as Sinners should repine at. But ask any of that Opinion, under the Stone, o• other tormenting Disease, or if he must die as a Malefactor, whether it be not a Natural evil? If there be no Evil in it, why doth he groan under it? Why doth he pray against it? Or use Physic or other remedies? Why is he offended at those that hurt him? Had he not rather have his Holiness and Salvation without torment, Prisons, &c. than with them.