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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.
Q. 8. How must the first, God's Creation, be Sanctified?
A. When we look on, or think of the incomprehensible Glory of the Sun, it's wonderful Greatness, Motion, Light and quickening Heat; bof the multitude and magnitude of the glorious Stars, of the vast heavenly Regions, the incomprehensible invisible Spirits or Powers that actuate and rule them all; when we come downward and think of the Air and its Inhabitants, and of this Earth, a vast Body to us, but as one Inch or Point in the whole Creation; of the many Nations, Animals, Plants of wonderful Variety, the terrible depths of the Ocean, and its numerous Inhabitants, &c. All these must be to us but as the Glass which showeth somewhat of the Face of God, or as the Letters of this great Book, of which God is the Sense; or as the actions of a living Body by which the invisible Soul is known. And as we study Arts for our Corporal use, we must study the whole World, even the Works of God, to this purposed use, that we may See, Love, ⟨p. 185⟩Reverence, and admire God in all: And this is the only true Philosophy, Astronomy, Cosmography, &c.
A. When we look on, or think of the incomprehensible Glory of the Sun, it's wonderful Greatness, Motion, Light and quickning Heat; bof the multitude and magnitude of the glorious Stars, of the vast heavenly Regions, the incomprehensible invisible Spirits or Powers that actuate and rule them all; when we come downward and think of the Aire and its Inhabitants, and of this Earth, a vast Body to us, but as one Inch or Point in the whole Creation; of the many Nations, Animals, Plants of wonderful Variety, the terrible depths of the Ocean, and its numerous Inhabitants, &c. All these must be to us but as the Glass which sheweth somewhat of the Face of God, or as the Letters of this great Book, of which God is the Sence; or as the actions of a living Body by which the invisible Soul is known. And as we study Arts for our Corporal use, we must study the whole World, even the Works of God, to this purposed use, that we may See, Love,