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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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Fourthly, I thus argue: You that are Parents and School-governors, owe love unto your children and Pupils, for this is a common debt which we owe unto all, Rom. 13. 8. much more unto them. Now this love must be in deed, 1. Joh. 3. 18. and can there be a more special work of love, then to help them to that science, which yieldeth for its benefit life eternal, Joh. 17. 3.
Fourthly, I thus argue: You that are Parents and Schoole-gouernours, owe loue vnto your children and Pupils, for this is a common debt which we owe vnto all, Rom. 13. 8. much more vnto them. Now this loue must be in deed, 1. Ioh. 3. 18. and can there bee a more speciall worke of loue, then to helpe them to that science, which yeeldeth for its benefit life eternall, Ioh. 17. 3.
Fifthly, those that profess the Christian faith, are by their calling Abraham's children, Gal. 3. 7. Now they that will be Abraham's children, must necessarily (as Truth it self hath affirmed) do the ⟨image 10⟩works of Abraham, Joh. 8. 39. Now this was one of his works, as may be seen Gen. 18. 19. of which also God did take especial notice.