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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. His Governing and Beneficent will: expressed in his Laws and Promises, concerning Man's Duty, and God's Rewards and Gifts.a
Q. 3. Is not the will of his Absolute Dominion expressed in the Course of Natural Motion, here included?
Q. 3. Is not the will of his Absolute Dominion exprest in the Course of Natural Motion, here inclided?
A. It may be included as the supposed matter of our approbation and praise: And as Gods will is taken for the Effects and Signs of his will, we may and must desire that he will continue the Course of Nature, Sun, and Moon, and Stars, Earth, Winds and Water, &c. ⟨p. 210⟩till the time of their dissolution, and Mankind on Earth: For these are supposed as the subject or accidents of Government. But the thing specially meant is God's governing Will, that is, that his Laws may be obeyed, and his Promises all performed.b
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