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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.
But yet the Words are signs, by which we are helped to know the things, and must diligently be learned to that end; and though men cannot reach the Heart, ⟨image 3⟩God hath appointed Parents and Masters, and Teachers to Instruct their Inferiors by words, and hath written the Scripture to that use, that by them his Spirit may teach or illuminate the Mind, and renew the Heart: God worketh on man as man, and we must know by Signs, till we know by intuition.
But yet the Words are signs, by which we are helpt to know the things, and must diligently be learned to that end; and though men cannot reach the Heart, ⟨image 3⟩God hath appointed Parents and Masters, and Teachers to Instruct their Inferiours by words, and hath written the Scripture to that use, that by them his Spirit may teach or illuminate the Mind, and renew the Heart: God worketh on man as man, and we must know by Signs, till we know by intuition.
It is a thing well known, that the Church aboundeth with Catechisms, and Systems of Divinity, and doth there yet need more? their scope and Substance is the same; they differ most, 1. In Choice of matter, that there be nothing left out that is needful, nor needless uncertainties and disputes put in. 2. That the Method or Order of them be True, agreeable to the matter and Sacred Scripture. 3. And that they be not blotted with any drops of disgraceful Error. These are the requisites to desirable Catechisms.
It is a thing well known, that the Church aboundeth with Catechisms, and Systemes of Divinity, and doth there yet need more? their scope and Substance is the same; they differ most, 1. In Choice of matter, that there be nothing left out that is needful, nor needless uncertainties and disputes put in. 2. That the Method or Order of them be True, agreeable to the matter and Sacred Scripture. 3. And that they be not blotted with any drops of disgraceful Errour. These are the requisites to desirable Catechisms.