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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. 5. When doth the Understanding know, believe and esteem him as God?
A. No Creature can know God with an adequate Comprehensive knowledge: But we must in our measure know, believe and esteem him to be the only Infinite, Eternal self-sufficient Spirit, Vital power, Understanding and Will, or most perfect Life, Light and Love; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things, Our absolute Owner, Ruler and Father, reconciled by Christ; Our Maker, our Redeemer and Sanctifier.
A. No Creature can know God with an adequate Comprehensive knowledge: But we must in our measure know, believe and esteem him to be the only Infinite, Eternal self-sufficient Spirit, Vital power, Undestanding and Will, or most perfect Life, Light and Love; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things, Our absolute Owner, Ruler and Father, reconciled by Christ; Our Maker, our Redeemer and Sanctifier.
Q. 6. When doth Mans Will love and cleave to him as God?
A. When the Understanding believing him to be Best, even Infinitely Good in himself, and Best to all the World, and Best to us, we Love him as such; though not yet in due perfection, yet sincerely above all other things.