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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. I say not that any selfish man tis a perfect Idolater, and giveth all God's properties to himself. He must kn•w whether he will or not, that he is not Infinite▪ Eternal, Almighty, Omniscient, Self-sufficient; He knoweth he must suffer and die. But SELF hath more given it that is due only to God, than any other Idol hath. And though such men know their own insufficiency, yet they have so little Trust in God, that they Trust their own Wits, and the Choice of their own Wills before the Wisdom and Choice of God: and had far rather be at their own Wills and Choice if they could: And indeed had rather that all things in the World were at their Will and Choice, than at the Will and Choice of God. And therefore they like not his ⟨p. 249⟩Laws and Government, but make their Wit, Will and Lust the Governors of themselves and as many others as they can.
A. I say not that any selfish man tis a perfect Idolater, and giveth all God's properties to himself. He must kn•w whether he will or not, that he is not Infinite▪ Eternal, Almighty, Omniscient, Selfsufficient; He knoweth he must suffer and die. But SELF hath more given it that is due only to God, than any other Idol hath. And though such men know their own insufficiency, yet they have so little Trust in God, that they Trust their own Wits, and the Choice of their own Wills before the Wisdom and Choice of God: and had far rather be at their own Wills and Choice if they could: And indeed had rather that all things in the World were at their Will and Choice, than at the Will and Choice of God. And therefore they like not his ⟨p. 249⟩Laws and Government, but make their Wit, Will and Lust the Governours of themselves and as many others as they can.