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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. 1. We partly know what they are, by what they do with us on Earth. 2. We know much what they are, by the Knowledge of our selves. If our Souls are Invisible Spirits, essentiated by the Power of Life, Understanding and Will, the Spirits ⟨p. 11⟩above us can be no less, but either such or more excellent. And he that made us, must needs be more excellent than his work.
Q. 4. How know you who made us?
A. He that made all things, must needs be our Maker, that is, GOD;a
Q. 5. What mean you by God? And what is He?