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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 is not the Cure of a doubting Soul, to Believe, though he find no Evidence in himself, and that because he is commanded to believe, and so believing will be his Evidence?
A. Believing is a word that signifieth divers Acts: As I told you, It is every Mans duty to believe Gods Mercy, and Christ's Redemption and Sufficiency, and the truth of the conditional Promise, rand to Accept Pardon as Offered on the Terms of that Promise; and then not to cherish doubts of his Sincerity: But it is not every Mans duty to Believe that he is sincere, or that his Sin is pardoned: Else most should be bound to believe an Untruth that it may after become true. Presumption destroyeth far more than Despair. For an ungodly impenitent Person to believe that he is godly, and justified by Christ, is to believe himself who is a Liar, and not to believe Christ; yea it is to believe himself against Christ, who saith the contrary.
A. Believing is a word that signifieth divers Acts: As I told you, It is every Mans duty to believe Gods Mercy, and Christ's Redemption and Sufficiency, and the truth of the conditional Promise, rand to Accept Pardon as Offered on the Terms of that Promise; and then not to cherish doubts of his Sincerity: But it is not every Mans duty to Believe that he is sincere, or that his Sin is pardoned: Else most should be bound to believe an Untruth that it may after become true. Presumption destroyeth far more than Despair. For an ungodly impenitent Person to believe that he is godly, and justified by Christ, is to believe himself who is a Lyar, and not to believe Christ; yea it is to believe himself against Christ, who saith the contrary.