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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. I mean, The Eternal, Infinite, Glorious Spirit, and Life, most Perfect in Active Power, Understanding and Will, Of whom, and by whom, and to whom are all things; being the Creator, Governor and End of all. This is that God whom All things do declare.
A. I mean, The Eternal, Infinite, Glorious Spirit, and Life, most Perfect in Active Power, Understanding and Will, Of whom, and by whom, and to whom are all things; being the Creator, Governour and End of all. This is that God whom All things do declare.
Q. 6. How know you that there is such a God?
A. By his works; (And I shall afterwards tell it you more fully by his Word.) Man did not make himself; Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Trees and Plants make not themselves: The Earth, and Water, and Air made not themselves: And if the Souls of men have a maker, the Spirits next above them must have a Maker: and so on, till you come to a first Cause that was made by none. There must be a first Cause, and there can be but one.
Q. 7. Why may there not be many Gods, or Spirits, that were made by none, but are Eternally of themselves?