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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.
10. The Parable of the sensual Rich Man, and Lazarus, one going presently to Hell, and the other to ⟨p. 157⟩the Bosom of Abraham in Paradise, fully prove that Christ would have this believed, and would have all Men warned accordingly to prepare; and that Moses and the Prophets were so sufficient for such notice, as that one from the Dead would have been less credible herein: Though it be a Parable, it is an instructing and not a deceiving Parable, and very plain in this particular. The Name of Abraham's Bosom was according to the Common sense of the Jews who so called that State of the blessed, not doubting but that Abraham was then in Happiness, and the blessed with him.
10. The Parable of the sensual Rich Man, and Lazarus, one going presently to Hell, and the other to ⟨p. 157⟩the Bosom of Abraham in Paradise, fully prove that Christ would have this believed, and would have all Men warned accordingly to prepare; and that Moses and the Prophets were so sufficient for such notice, as that one from the Dead would have been less credible herein: Though it be a Parable, it is an instructing and not a deceiving Parable, and very plain in this particular. The Name of Abraham's Bosom was according to the Common sence of the Iews who so called that State of the blessed, not doubting but that Abraham was then in Happiness, and the blessed with him.
11. Herod's thought that John had been risen from the Dead, and the Jews conceit that Christ had been one of the Old Prophets risen, and the Pharisees approbation of Christ's argument with the Sadducees, do put it past doubt that it was then taken for certain Truth, that the Souls of the Faithful do survive, by all except such as the Heretical Sadducees.
11. Herod's thought that Iohn had been risen from the Dead, and the Iews conceit that Christ had been one of the Old Prophets risen, and the Pharisees approbation of Christ's argument with the Sadduces, do put it past doubt that it was then taken for certain Truth, that the Souls of the Faithful do survive, by all except such as the Heretical Sadduces.