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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. That as a Father by Generation is the Owner, the Ruler and the Loving Benefactor to his Child, so is God eminently and transcendently to us.
Q. 5. To whom is God a Father, and on what Fundamental account?
A. 1. He is a Father to all Men by Creation; to all lapsed Mankind by the Price of a sufficient Redemption: But only to the Regenerate by Regeneration and Adoption, and that effective Redemption which ⟨p. 178⟩actually delivereth Men from Guilt, Wrath, Sin and Hell, and Justifieth and Sanctifieth them, and make• them Heirs of Glory.
A. 1. He is a Father to all Men by Creation; to all lapsed Mandkind by the Price of a sufficient Redemption: But only to the Regenerate by Regeneration and Adoption, and that effective Redemption which ⟨p. 178⟩actually delivereth Men from Guilt, Wrath, Sin and Hell, and Justifieth and Sanctifieth them, and make• them Heirs of Glory.