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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. 5. To what Use did Christ make it them?
A. First, To be a Directory for the Matter and Method of their Love, Desires, Hope and Voluntary choice and endeavours; And, 2. To be used in the same Words when their case required it.
As Man hath three Essential Faculties, the Intellect, Will and Vital executive Power; so Religion hath three Essential parts, viz. To direct our Understandings to believe, our Will to desire, and our Lives in practice.
Q. 6. What is the Matter of the Lord's Prayer in General?
A. It containeth, First, What we must desire as our End: And Secondly, What we must desire as the Means; premising the necessary Preface, and concluding with a suitable Conclusion.