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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.
A. It greatly concerneth us to difference certainties from uncertainties. It is certain that the Faithful have a promise of a great reward in Heaven, and of being with Christ, and being conveyed into Paradise by Angels, and are commanded to lay up a Treasure in Heaven, and there to set their Hearts and Affections, and to seek the things that are above where Christ is at Gods right Hand; and they desire to depart and be with Christ as far better than to be here, and to be absent ⟨p. 167⟩from the Body, and be present with the Lord: so that the Inheritance of the Saints in heavenly Light and Glory, is certain. But as to the rest, whether the New Earth shall be for new Inhabitants, or for us; and whether the descending Jerusalem shall be only for a Thousand Years before the final Judgment, or after for perpetuity, or whether it shall come no lower than the Air, where it is said, That we shall be taken up to meet the Lord, and so shall ever be with him, or whether Earth shall be made as Glorious to us as Heaven, and Heaven and Earth be laid together in Common, when separating sin is gone; These matters being to us less certain, must not be set against that which is certain. And the new Jerusalem coming down from Heaven, doth imply that it was first in Heaven, and it's said, that it's now above, and we are come to it in relation and foretaste, where are the perfected Spirits of the Just, as it is described, Heb. 12. 22, 23, 24.
A. It greatly concerneth us to difference certainties from uncertainties. It is certain that the Faithful have a promise of a great reward in Heaven, and of being with Christ, and being conveyed into Paradise by Angels, and are commanded to lay up a Treasure in Heaven, and there to set their Hearts and Affections, and to seek the things that are above where Christ is at Gods right Hand; and they desire to depart and be with Christ as far better than to be here, and to be absent ⟨p. 167⟩from the Body, and be present with the Lord: so that the Inheritance of the Saints in heavenly Light and Glory, is certain. But as to the rest, whether the New Earth shall be for new Inhabitants, or for us; and whether the descending Hierusalem shall be only for a Thousand Years before the final Judgment, or after for perpetuity, or whether it shall come no lower than the Air, where it is said, That we shall be taken up to meet the Lord, and so shall ever be with him, or whether Earth shall be made as Glorious to us as Heaven, and Heaven and Earth be laid together in Common, when separating sin is gone; These matters being to us less certain, must not be set against that which is certain. And the new Ierusalem coming down from Heaven, doth imply that it was first in Heaven, and it's said, that it's now above, and we are come to it in relation and foretast, where are the perfected Spirits of the Just, as it is described,