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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. Why do we not read that the Apostles after used this Prayer?
A. It is enough to read that Christ prescribed it ⟨p. 176⟩them, and that they were Obedient to him. We read not of all that the Apostles did.
2. This is a Comprehensive Summary of all Prayer, and therefore must needs be brief in the several parts: But the Apostles had occasion sometime for one branch and sometime for another, on which they particularly enlarged, and Seldom put up the whole matter of Prayer all at once.
3. They formed their Desires according to the Method of this Prayer, though they expressed those desires as various occasions did require.
3. They formed their Desires according to the Method of this Prayer, though they expressed those deres as various occasions did require.