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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. XXIV. Our Father which art in Heaven,] Expounded.
Qu. 1. Who is it that we pray to, whom we call Our Father?]
Qu. 1. WHo is it that we pray to, whom we call Our Father?]
A. GOD himself.
Q. 2. May we not pray to Creatures?
A. Yes, for that which it belongeth to those Creatures to give us upon our request, supposing they hear us: But not for that which is Gods, and not their own to give; nor yet in a manner unsuitable to the Creatures Capacity or Place. A Child may Petition his Father, and a Subject his Prince, and all Men one another.