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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.
A. The meaning is, 1. That by Christ a certain Degree of punishment is taken off from all Mankind, and they are not dealt with according to the rigour of the Law of Innocent Nature. 2. And that a conditional Pardon is given to all in the new Covenant so far as it is revealed. 3. And that this Pardon becometh actual to every one when he penitently and believingly consenteth to the (Baptismal) Covenant with Christ. o4. And that this Pardon is offered to me as well as others, and shall be mine if I be a sincere Believer; This is all that the Article containeth▪ 5. But while I profess to Believe, it is supposed that I hope I do it sincerely, and therefore have some hope that I am pardoned. 6. But because a Man may sincerely believe, and yet doubt of the sincerity, and God hath no where said in Scripture that I or you are Sincere Believers, or are pardoned; therefore to believe ⟨p. 151⟩this is no Divine Faith save by participation, nor is it profest by all that profess the Creed. But it is an Effect of two Acts, 1. Of our Faith, 2. And of the Conscience of our sincerity in Believing: It is a Conclusion that all should labour to make sure, though it be not the proper sense of the Article.
A. The meaning is, 1. That by Christ a certain Degree of punishment is taken off from all Mankind, and they are not dealt with according to the rigor of the Law of Innocent Nature. 2. And that a conditional Pardon is given to all in the new Covenant so far as it is revealed. 3. And that this Pardon becometh actual to every one when he penitently and believingly consenteth to the (Baptismal) Covenant with Christ. o4. And that this Pardon is offered to me as well as others, and shall be mine if I be a sincere Believer; This is all that the Article containeth▪ 5. But while I profess to Believe, it is supposed that I hope I do it sincerely, and therefore have some hope that I am pardoned. 6. But because a Man may sincerely believe, and yet doubt of the sincerity, and God hath no where said in Scripture that I or you are Sincere Believers, or are pardoned; therefore to believe