B11281:27
A catechism or brief instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian…A catechisme or briefe instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian…
A catechism or brief instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian religion With a short treatise premised concerning the profity and necessity of catechizing.A catechisme or briefe instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian religion With a short treatise premised concerning the profity and necessitie of catechizing.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1617London: printed by Edvvard Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1617
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Secondly, should that be contemptible with us, the careful and diligent practise of which, hath made certain, though otherwise much accepted, yet to be the more honourable with God? Abraham for example: It is true that his faith properly made his person pleasing unto God, Heb. 11. 6. and 39. yet his diligentnesse about the instructing of his family in the way of the Lord, did make him the more acceptable; and therefore for this very act God maketh him of his privy counsel: Shall I hide (saith the Lord) from Abraham the thing that I will do? For I know him, that he will command his sons & his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, Ge. 18. 17. 19.
Secondly, should that be contemptible with vs, the carefull and diligent practise of which, hath made certaine, though otherwise much accepted, yet to be the more honourable with God? Abraham for example: It is true that his faith properly made his person pleasing vnto God, Heb. 11. 6. and 39. yet his diligentnesse about the instructing of his familie in the way of the Lord, did make him the more acceptable; and therfore for this very act God maketh him of his priuie counsell: Shall I hide (saith the Lord) from Abraham the thing that I will doe? For I know him, that he will command his sons & his houshold after him, that they keepe the way of the Lord, Ge. 18. 17. 19.
Thirdly, if antiquity and ancientie may procure reverence, (as it ought to do when it is not severed from truth) certainly catechizing is not destitute of this.
Thirdly, if antiquitie and ancientie may procure reuerence, (as it ought to doe when it is not seuered from truth) certainly catechizing is not destitute of this.