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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. GOD is not more or less in one place than another in his Being, but he is apparent and known to us by his Working, and so we say He is in Heaven, as he there Worketh and Shineth forth to the most blessed Creatures in Heavenly Glory. As we ⟨p. 14⟩say the Sun is where it shineth; Or, to use a more apt Comparison, the Soul of Man is indivisibly in the whole Body, but it doth not Work in all parts alike; it understandeth not in the Foot, but in the Head; it Seeth not, Heareth not, Tasteth not, and smelleth not in the Fingers or lower parts, but in the Eye, the Ear, and other Senses in the Head; and therefore when we talk to a man, it is his Soul that we talk to, and not his Flesh, and yet we look him in the Face; not as if the Soul were no where but in the Face or Head, but because it only worketh and appeareth there by those Senses and that Understanding which we Converse with: Even so we look up to Heaven when we speak to God; not as if he were no where else, but because Heaven is the place of his glorious Appearing and Operation, and as the Head and Face of the World where all true Glory and Felicity is, and from whence it descendeth to this Earth, as the Beams of the Sun do from its glorious Centre.
A. GOD is not more or less in one place than another in his Being, but he is apparent and known to us by his Working, and so we say He is in Heaven, as he there Worketh and Shineth forth to the most blessed Creatures in Heavenly Glory. As we ⟨p. 14⟩say the Sun is where it shineth; Or, to use a more apt Comparison, the Soul of Man is indivisibly in the whole Body, but it doth not Work in all parts alike; it understandeth not in the Foot, but in the Head; it Seeth not, Heareth not, Tasteth not, and smelleth not in the Fingers or lower parts, but in the Eye, the Ear, and other Senses in the Head; and therefore when we talk to a man, it is his Soul that we talk to, and not his Flesh, and yet we look him in the Face; not as if the Soul were no where but in the Face or Head, but because it only worketh and appeareth there by those Senses and that Understanding which we Converse with: Even so we look up to Heaven when we speak to God; not as if he were no where else, but because Heaven is the place of his glorious Appearing and Operation, and as the Head and Face of the World where all true Glory and Felicity is, and from whence it descendeth to this Earth, as the Beams of the Sun do from its glorious Center.