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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. Though he be invisible and we have no corporeal Idea of him, nor no adequate or just formal Conception of him, yet he is the most Noble Object of our Understanding and Love; as the Sun is of our sight, though we comprehend it no•. We are not without such an Idea or conception of God, as is better than all other knowledge, and is the beginning of Eternal Life, and is true in its kind, though very imperfect.e
Q. 8. How can you know him that is no Object of sense?
A. He is the Object of our Understanding: We know in our selves what it is to Know and to Will, though these acts are not the objects of sense, (unless you will call the very acts of knowing and willing, an eminent internal sensation of themselves.) And by this we know what it is to have the Power of Understanding and Willing: And so what it is to be an Invisible substance with such Power. And as we have this true Idea or Conception of • Soul, so have we more easily of him who is more than a Soul to the whole World.f