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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.
2. But it is not true, that all the punishments of such as are saved make them better: some are permitted to fall into heinous Sin, and to decline in their Faith, Love and Obedience, and to die worse than once they were; and so to have a less Degree of Glory, whe• they have been hurtful Scandals in the World. And is there no harm in all this? Nothing is perfect i• this imperfect World.i
2. But it is not true, that all the punishments of such as are saved make them better: some are permitted to fall into hainous Sin, and to decline in their Faith, Love and Obedience, and to die worse than once they were; and so to have a less Degree of Glory, whe• they have been hurtful Scandals in the World. And is there no harm in all this? Nothing is perfect i• this imperfect World.i
- i2 Sam. 7. 14. Psal. 73. 14. & 1•8. 18. 1 Cor. 11. 32. Jer. 31. 18. Heb. 12. 8, 9, 10. 2 Cor. 2• 6. Lam. 3. 39. Job▪ 31. 11. Am. 3. 2. Ma• 16. 23.2 Sam. 7. 14. Psal. 73. 14. & 1•8. 18.