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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.
2. And as the Heavens are not all Stars, but spangled with Stars, nor the Stars all Suns, nor Beasts and Vermin Men, nor the Earth and Stones are Gold and Diamonds, nor is the Darkness Light, the Winter Summer, or Sickness Health, or Death Life: And yet the wonderful Variety and Vicissitude contributeth to the Perfection of the Universe, as the Variety of parts to the Perfection of the Body, so God maketh use even of Mens Sin and Folly, and of all the mad Confusions and Cruelties of the World, to that perfect Order and Harmony which he that accomplisheth them doth well know, though we perceive it not, because we neither see the Whole, nor the End, but only the little Particles and the Beginnings of God's unsearchable works.
2. And as the Heavens are not all Stars, but spangled with Stars, nor the Stars all Suns, nor Beasts and Vermine Men, nor the Earth and Stones are Gold and Diamonds, nor is the Darkness Light, the Winter Summer, or Sickness Health, or Death Life: And yet the wonderful Variety and Vicissitude contributeth to the Perfection of the Universe, as the Variety of parts to the Perfection of the Body, so God maketh use even of Mens Sin and Folly, and of all the mad Confusions and Cruelties of the World, to that perfect Order and Harmony which he that accomplisheth them doth well know, though we perceive it not, because we neither see the Whole, nor the End, but only the little Particles and the Beginnings of God's unsearchable works.
3. And this dark and wicked World is but a little Spot of God's vast Creation; and seemeth to be the lowest next to Hell, while the lucid Glorious heavenly Regions are incomprehensibly great, and no doubt possessed by Inhabitants suitable to so glorious a place: And as it is not either the Gallows or the Prison that is a dishonour to the Kingly Government, so neither is Hell or the Sins on Earth, a dishonour to the Government of God.