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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 in the constant delightful Contemplation of this Supernal Glorious World, by Heavenly Affections and Conversation, keeping our Minds above while our Bodies are here below, and looking beyond this Prison of Flesh, with desire and hope. As Heaven is the State and Place where God shineth to the understanding Creature in the greatest Glory, and where he is best known, so it is this heavenly Glory seen to us by Faith, which is the most Glorious of all the Names or Notices of God to be hallowed by us.
2. And in the constant delightful Contemplation of this Supernal Glorious World, by Heavenly Affections and Conversation, keeping our Minds above while our Bodyes are here below, and looking beyond this Prison of Flesh, with desire and hope. As Heaven is the State and Place where God shineth to the understanding Creature in the greatest Glory, and where he is best known, so it is this heavenly Glory seen to us by Faith, which is the most Glorious of all the Names or Notices of God to be hallowed by us.
Q. 19. What is the profaning of this Name of God?
A. The minding only of Earthly and Fleshly things; and not believing, considering or admiring the heavenly Glory: Not loving and praising God for it, nor desiring and seeking to enjoy it.