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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.
Abundance more might be added: And I hav• been so large on this, because it is of most unspeakable importance, as that which all our comfo•• ⟨p. 161⟩and our Religion lieth on; and though the Light of Nature have taught it Philosophers, and almost all the World in all Ages, yet the Devil is most busy to make Men doubt of it, or deny it.
Abundance more might be added: And I hav• been so large on this, because it is of most unspeakable importance, as that which all our comfo•• ⟨p. 161⟩and our Religion lyeth on; and though the Light of Nature have taught it Philosophers, and almost all the World in all Ages, yet the Devil is most busie to make Men doubt of it, or deny it.
Religion lieth on three grand Articles: 1. To believe in God: • and this is so evident in the whole frame of Nature, that there is a God, that he is worse than mad that will deny it. 2. To believe the Immortality of the Soul, and the Life hereafter. And, 3. To believe in Christ: And though it be this third that is known only by supernatural Revelation, yet to him that believeth▪ the Immortality of the Soul, and the Life hereafter, Christianity will appear so exceeding Congruous, that it will much the more easily be believed. And experience tells us that the Devils main Game, for the Debauching and Damning of fleshly, worldly, ungodly Men, and for troubling and discomforting Believers, lieth in raising Doubts of the Souls Immortality, and the future Life of Reward and Punishment.
Religion lyeth on three grand Articles: 1. To believe in God: • and this is so evident in the whole frame of Nature, that there is a God, that he is worse than mad that will deny it. 2. To believe the Immortality of the Soul, and the Life hereafter. And, 3. To believe in Christ: And though it be this third that is known only by supernatural Revelation, yet to him that believeth the Immortality of the Soul, and the Life hereafter, Christianity will appear so exceeding Congruous, that it will much the more easily be believed. And experience tells us that the Devils main Game, for the Debauching and Damning of fleshly, worldly, ungodly Men, and for troubling and discomforting Believers, lieth in raising Doubts of the Souls Immortality, and the future Life of Reward and Punishment.