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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. 8. What should a Man do that he may live in a comfortable hope of the Resurrection, and the Souls Immortality, and the Life to come?
A. We have three great things to do for this end: 1. To get as full a certainty as is possible that there is such a Life to come. And this is done by strengthening a sound belief. 2. To get a suitableness of Soul to that blessed Life; and this is by the increase of Love and Holiness; and by a Spiritual heavenly conversation. And, 3. To get and exercise a joyful Hope and Assurance that it shall be ours: And this is done by a Life of careful Obedience to God, and the Conscious notice of our sincerity and title, and by the increase and exercise of the foresaid Faith and Love: Daily dwelling on the Thoughts of God's infinite Goodness and Fatherly love, of Christ's Office and Grace, and the Seals of the Spirit, and the blessed state of Triumphant Souls, in the Heavenly Jerusalem, and living as in familiarity with them.
A. We have three great things to do for this end: 1. To get as full a certainty as is possible that there is such a Life to come. And this is done by strengthning a sound belief. 2. To get a suitableness of Soul to that blessed Life; and this is by the increase of Love and Holiness; and by a Spiritual heavenly conversation. And, 3. To get and exercise a joyful Hope and Assurance that it shall be ours: And this is done by a Life of careful Obedience to God, and the Conscious notice of our sincerity and title, and by the increase and exercise of the foresaid Faith and Love: Daily dwelling on the Thoughts of God's infinite Goodness and Fatherly love, of Christ's Office and Grace, and the Seals of the Spirit, and the blessed state of Triumphant Souls, in the Heavenly Ierusalem, and living as in familiarity with them.
Q. 9. But when doubting Thoughts return, would it not be a great help to Faith, if you could prove the Souls Immortality by reason?