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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. 18. How may I be sure that I am forgiven?
A. The everlasting punishment is forgiven, when you are one that God by his Covenant pardoneth, and that is, when by true Faith and Repentance you Consent to the Covenant Terms, and give up your self to God, as your God and Saviour, and Sanctifier. And when temporal punishments are remitted in Soul or Body, experience of their removal may tell you.q
Q. 19. What keepeth up doubts of forgiveness of Sin?
A. 1. Ignorance of the Terms of the pardoning Covenant. 2. And ignorance of our Selves, and our own Sincerity. 3. Especially renewing our guilt by Sin, and being so defective in our Repentance and other Grace, as that we cannot be sure of our Sincerity: Above all when frequent sinning after Promises make us not credible to our selves.