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A26879	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 ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing B1205; ESTC R22783	252,758	464

speaking ●… him should be customary and dead and like th● Thoughts and talk of Common things and in some degree of Taking of Gods Name in vain CHAP. XXXVII Of the Fourth Commandement Qu. 1. WHat are the Words of the fourth Commandement A. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy six daies shalt thou Labour and do all thy work But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daugh●er thy Man-Servant nor thy Maid-Servant nor thy Cattel nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates For in six daies the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them ●s and rested the seventh day Wherefore ●he Lord blessed the Sabbath day and ●allowed it Q. 2. Why doth Deut. 5. repeat it in so different Words A. Because the words are but for the sence and ●hey being kept in the Ark as written in Stone and safe from alteration Moses in Deut. 5. gave them the sence and added some of his own explication And nothing is altered to obscure the sence Q. 3. Which day is it which was called the Sabbath in this Commandement A. The seventh commonly called from the Heathen Custom Saturday Q. 4. Why was that day made the Sabbath A. God having made the world in six daies space seeing all Good and very Good rested in his own complacency and appointed the seventh day every week to be separated as Holy to worship and praise him the Great Creator as his Glorious perfections shine forth in his works Q. 5. What is meant by Gods resting from his work A. Not that he had been at any labour or wea●iness therein but 1. That he finished the Creation 2. That he was pleased in it as Good 3. And that he would have it be a day of holy pleasant Rest to man Q. 6. What is meant by keeping Holy the Sabbath day A. Separating it to the Holy Worship and praise of the Creator and Resting to that end from unnecessary bodily labour Q. 7. What doth the word Remember signifie A. First it is an awakening Caveat to bid us take special care that we break not this Commandement 2. And then that we must prepare before it comes to avoid the things that would hinder us in the duty and to be fit for it's performance Q. 8. Why is Remember put before this more than before the rest of the Commandements A. Because 1. Being but of Positive institution and not naturally known to man as other duties are they had need of a positive excitation and Remembrance And 2. It is of great importance to the constant and acceptable worship and the avoiding of impediments to keep close to the due Time which God hath appointed for it And to violate it tendeth to Atheistical ungodliness Q. 9. Why is it called The Sabbath of the Lord thy God A. Because 1. God did institute and separate it 2. And it is separated to the honour and Worship of God Q. 10. When and how did God institute and separate it A. Fundamentally by his own Resting from the work of Creation But immediately by his declaring to Adam his Will for the sanctifying of that day which is expressed Gen. 2. 3. Q. 11. Some think that the Sabbath was not instituted till man had sinned and Christ was promised and so God Rested in Christ A. When the text adjoineth it close to the Creation and giveth that only as the reason of it that God ended his works which he had made and rested from them this is humane corrupting presumption Q. 12. But some think the Sabbath was first instituted in the Wilderness when they were forbid to gather Manna A. It is not there mentioned as newly instituted and it is mentioned Gen. 2. 2 3. and then instituted with the reason of it And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he rested from all his works which God created and made And the same reason is repeated in the Fourth Commandement Q. 13. Is this Commandement of the Law of Nature as are the rest A. It was more of the Law of Nature to Adam than to us his nature knowing otherwise than ours both when God ended his works and how beautiful they were before the Curse It is now of the Law of Nature that is known by Natural light without other Revelation 1. That God should be worshipped 2. That Societies should assemble to do it together 3. That some set Time should be separated statedly to that use 4. That it should be done with the whole heart without worldly diversions or distractions But I know nothing in Nature alone from whence a man can prove that 1. It must be either just one day in seven 2. Or just what day of the seven it must be 3. Nor just what degree of Rest is necessary Though reason may discern that one day in seven is a very convenient proportion Q. 14. Are the words Six dayes shalt thou labour c. a Command or onely a License A. They are not only a License but a Command to man to live in an ordinary calling or Lawful course of Labour according to each ones ability and place and diligently to exercise it and not spend time in Idleness And the ordinary time is here assigned thereto Q. 15. Then how can it be lawful to spend any of the week-dayes in Religious Exercises any more than to spend any part of the Sabbath day in Labour A. All Labours are to be done as the Service of God and as a means to holy and Everlasting ends and therefore it is implyed still that God be sought and remembred and honoured in all As our Eating and drinking is our duty but to be done to the Glory of God and therefore with the seeking of his blessing and returning him our thanks Q. 16. But is it lawful then to separate whole dayes either weekly or monthly or yearly to Religious Exercises when God hath commanded us to labour on them A. As Gods command of Resting on the Sabbath is but the Stating of the Ordinary Time supposing an exception of extraordinary Cases as in time of War of Fire of dispersing Plagues of hot Persecution c. As Circumcision was omitted in the Wilderness forty years so this Command to Labour six dayes doth state our ordinary time but with supposed exception of extraordinary occasions for dayes of Humiliation and Thanksgiving And all Gods Commands suppose that when two dutyes meet together and cannot both be then done the greater must ever be preferred And therefore saving the Life of a Man or a Beast yea feeding and watering beasts labouring in Temple Service c. were to be preferred before the Rest of the Sabbath And so when our necessity or profit make Religions exercises more to o●r good and so a greater duty as Lectures Fasts c. we must preferre them to our ordinary Labour For as the Sabbath was made

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 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 in hope that Family and School-diligence may do much to keep up True Religion LONDON Printed for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers-Chappel and B. Simmons at the Three Golden Cocks at the West end of St. Pauls 1683. The Reasons and Use of this BOOK MAN is born without Knowledge but not without a Capacity and faculty of Knowing this is his Excellency and Essence Nature Experience and Gods Word tell us the great necessity of Knowledge As the Souls essential form is the virtue of vital Action Understanding and Will conjunct so Holiness is Holy Life Light and Love conjunct The wisest men are the best and the best the wisest but a Counterfeit of Knowledge is the great deceiver of the World Millions take the Knowledge of bare Words with the Gramatical and Logical sence instead of the Knowledge of the things themselves which by these are signified as if the Glass would nourish without the Wine or the Dish without the Meat or the Cloathing or Skin were all the man God and Holiness and Heaven are better known by many serious unlearned Christians that cannot accurately dispute about them than by many Learned men who can excellently speak of that which their Souls are unacquainted with The Hipocrites Religion is but an Art the true Christians is a Habit which is a Divine Nature But yet the Words are signs by which we are helpt to know the things and must diligently be learned to that end and though men cannot reach the Heart God hath appointed Parents and Masters and Teachers to Instruct their Inferiours by words and hath written the Scripture to that use that by them his Spirit may teach or illuminate the Mind and renew the Heart God worketh on man as man and we must know by Signs till we know by intuition It is a thing well known that the Church aboundeth with Catechisms and Systemes of Divinity and doth there yet need more their scope and Substance is the same they differ most 1. In Choice of matter that there be nothing left out that is needful nor needless uncertainties and disputes put in 2. That the Method or Order of them be True agreeable to the matter and Sacred Scripture 3. And that they be not blotted with any drops of disgraceful Errour These are the requisites to desirable Catechisms No doubt but they should be sorted into three degrees suited to the Childhood Youth and maturer Age of Christians I. The Essentials of Christianity are all contained generally in Baptism this must be understood and therefore expounded the Creed Lords Prayer and Decalogue the Summaries of things to to be Beleived Desired in Hope and Practised were from the beginning taken for a good Exposition to those that were to be Baptized These three as Expounding Baptism are themselves a good Catechism the understanding of the Lords Supper being added for Communicants II. But here also Children will be childish and learn the words while they are mindless of the sence therefore an Explication of these in other words hath ever been thought a great part of the work of a Teaching Ministry whence the Ancients have left us their Expositions of the Creed c. But here the difficulty is made insuperable by the Learners indisposition if such a Catechism be short and much put in few words the vulgar cannot understand it if it be long and in many words they cannot learn and remember it III. For Remedy of this a Larger Catechism yet is needful not to be learnt without Book but to be a full Exposition of the Shorter which they learn that they may have recourse to this for a more full and particular understanding of a Shorter whose general words they can remember Accordingly having in my Poor Mans Family Book written two Catechisms of the former rank I here adde the third for those that have learned the two first Far am I from thinking that I have done any one of these to perfection I never yet saw a Catechism without some notable imperfection And no doubt mine are not free from such But while I avoid what I see amiss in others I hope God will illuminate some to do yet beter and to avoid what is amiss in mine The degree which yet pretendeth to greater accurateness in Method I have given in a Latine Methodus Theologiae The Uses for which I have written this are these I. For Masters of Families who should endeavour to raise their Children and Servants to a good degree of Knowledge I have divided it into short Chapters that on the Lords dayes or at nights when they have leisure the Master may read to them one Chapter at a time that is the Exposition of one Article of the Creed one Petition of the Lords Prayer and one Commandement Expounded II. For School-masters to cause their riper rank of Scholars to learn I am past doubt that it is a heinous Crime in the School-masters of England that they devote but one hour or two in a week to the learning of the Catechism while all the rest of the week is devoted to the learning of Lilly Ovid Virgil Horace Cicero Livy Terence and such like besides the loss and sinful omission it seduceth Youth to think that common Knowledge which is only Subsidiary and Ornamental is more excellent or necessary than to know God Christ the Gospel Duty and Salvation besides which all Knowledge further than it helpeth or serveth this is but fooling and doting and as dangerous diversion and perversion of the mind as grosser sensual delights He is not worthy the name of a Christian School-master who maketh it not his chief work to teach his Scholars the Knowledge of Christ and Life Everlasting III. But if they goe from the Countrey Schools before they are capable of the Larger Catechisms as to their great loss most make too much hast away why may not their next Tutors make it their chief work to train up their Pupils as the Disciples of Iesus and yet not neglect either Aristotle or any natural light To our present Universities I am not so vain as to offer such Instructions though to some small part of them I directed my Methodus Theologiae I learnt not of them and I presume not to make my self their Teacher Their late GUIDES their WORLDLY-INTEREST and their GENIUS have made my Writings odious to many even that which they like they will not read But I have oft with Lamentation wondered why Godly Ministers do no more of the work now appropriated to Universities for their own Sons Those men whose Church zeal would