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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.
A. By certain Effects and Signs which notify them: How little else did man differ from a Beast; ⟨p. 10⟩if he knew no more than he seeth and feeleth? Besides what we know from others that have seen; you see not now that the Sun will rise to morrow, or that Man must die: you see not Italy, Spain, France; You see no mans Soul: And yet we certainly know that such things are and will be.
A. By certain Effects and Signs which notifie them: How little else did man differ from a Beast; ⟨p. 10⟩if he knew no more than he seeth and feeleth? Besides what we know from others that have seen; you see not now that the Sun will rise to morrow, or that Man must die: you see not Italy, Spain, France; You see no mans Soul: And yet we certainly know that such things are and will be.
Q. 2. How know you that there is any thing above us, but what we see?
A. 1. We see such things done here on Earth, which nothing doth or can do which is seen. What thing that is seen can give all Men and Beasts their life and sense and safety? and so marvellously form the bodies of all, and govern all the matters of the World? 2. We see that the spaces above us, where Sun, Moon and Stars are, are so vast, that all this Earth is not so much to them, as one Inch is to all this Land: And we see that the Regions above us, excel in the glory of purity and splendour: And when this dark spot of Earth hath so many millions of Men, can we doubt whether those vast and glorious parts are better inhabited? 3. And we find that the grossest things are the basest, and the most invisible the most Powerful and Noble; as our Souls are above our Bodies: And therefore the most vast and Glorious Worlds above us, must have the most invisible, powerful, noble inhabitants.