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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.
Q. 8. What mean you by our self-willedness?
A. Man was made by the Creating Will of God, to obey the Governing will of God, and rest and rejoice in the disposing, rewarding and beneficent will of God, and his Essential Love and Goodness: by sin he is fallen from God's will to himself, and his own Will, and would fain have all Events in the power and disposal of his own Will, and fain be Ruled by his own Will, and have no restraints, and would rest in himself; and the fulfilling of his Will: Yea, he would have all Persons and things in the World, to depend ⟨p. 212⟩on his Will, fulfil and please it, and ascribe unto it. And so would be the Idol of himself, and of the World. And all the wickedness, and stir, and cruelty of the World, is but that every selfish Man may have his will.
A. Man was made by the Creating Will of God, to obey the Governing will of God, and rest and rejoice in the disposing, rewarding and beneficent will of God, and his Essential Love and Goodness: by sin he is fallen from God's will to himself, and his own Will, and would fain have all Events in the power and disposal of his own Will, and fain be Ruled by his own Will, and have no restraints, and would rest in himself; and the fulfilling of his Will: Yea, he would have all Persons and things in the World, to depend ⟨p. 212⟩on his Will, fulfill and please it, and ascribe unto it. And so would be the Idol of himself, and of the World. And all the wickedness, and stir, and cruelty of the World, is but that every selfish Man may have his will.
Q. 9. What then is the full meaning of this Petition?