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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. Because it is a Contradiction; The same would be both perfect and imperfect: Perfect, because he is of himself Eternally, without a cause, and so dependent upon none: And yet Imperfect, because he hath but a Part of that Being that is ⟨p. 12⟩said to be perfect: For many are more than One, and all make up the absolute, perfect being, and One of them is but a Part of all: And to be a Part is to be Imperfect. However, many subordinate Created Spirits may unfitly be called Gods, there can be but one uncreated God in the first and proper sense.
A. Because it is a Contradiction; The same would be both perfect and imperfect: Perfect, because he is of himself Eternally, without a cause, and so dependent upon none: And yet Imperfect, because he hath but a Part of that Being that is ⟨p. 12⟩said to be perfect: For many are more than One, and all make up the absolute, perfect being, and One of them is but a Part of all: And to be a Part is to be Imperfect. However, many subordinate Created Spirits may unfitly be called Gods, there can be but one uncreated God in the first and proper sence.
Q. 8. How know you that God is Eternal, without Beginning?
A. Because else there was a time when there was Nothing; if there were a time when there was no God. And then there never would have been any thing: For nothing can make nothing.