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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.
So that you may well conceive of GOD as the SOUL of the World, so you will but put in that he is far more.
Q. 4. Is it not below God to concern himself with these lower things? Doth he not leave them to those that are under him?
A. It is below God to be unconcerned about any part, even the least of his own works. Men are narrow Creatures, and can be but in one place ⟨p. 16⟩at once, and therefore must do that by others which they cannot do themselves, at least without trouble: But God is infinite, and present with all Creatures; and as nothing is in being without him, so nothing can move without him.
Q. 5. By this you make God to do all things Immediately, whereas we see he works by means and second causes: He giveth us light and heat by the Sun; he upholdeth us by the Earth, &c.