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Fifty-Two Lectures On The Church Catechism - Softcover

Samuel Walker

 
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Synopsis

Fifty-Two Lectures On The Church Catechism; Including The Creed, The Ten Commandments, And Other Important Subjects Of Practical Religion — Samuel Walker. This excerpt presents Part 3 of the work, a sequence of Anglican sermons that apply the fifth and sixth commandments to everyday life and social order. It elaborates duties within family and household relations (parents and children; husbands and wives), as well as social hierarchies (masters and servants), ecclesial authority (ministers and people), and civil governance (magistrates and subjects). The text emphasizes reverence for God-centered authority, faithful obedience, and the spiritual welfare of individuals through disciplined living, prayer, and communal accountability. It situates these duties within a pastoral, exhortatory frame that grounds ethics in Scripture, repeatedly using exempla (biblical and biblical-adjacent figures) and doctrinal summaries to connect personal morality with God’s law. The local summaries supplement this with context about the broader catechetical project, the evangelical Anglican milieu, and the aim of moving readers from mere assent to living faith and holy living through dependence on Christ and prayer. The tone remains pastoral, corrective, and devotional, urging repentance and perseverance in grace.

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