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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.
CHAP. XXIII. What is the true use of the Lord's Prayer.
Qu. 1. What is Prayer?
Qu. 1. WHat is Prayer?
A. It is Holy Desires expressed or actuated to God, (with Heart alone, or also with the Tongue) including our penitent Confession of sin, and its Deserts, and our thankful acknowledgement of his Mercies, and our Praising God's works and his Perfections.
A. It is Holy Desires expressed or actuated to God, (with Heart alone, or also with the Tongue) including our penitent Confession of sin, and its Deserts, and our thankful acknowledgment of his Mercies, and our Praising God's works and his Perfections.
Q. 2. What is the Use of Prayer? Seeing God cannot be changed and moved by us, what good can it do us, and how can it attain our ends?