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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.
12. Another way of taking Gods Name prophane•, and pleading it for Vanity and Lies, is by making God the determining first Cause of all the acts of men in the World, as specified by their objects and ⟨p. 270⟩circumstances; that is, of all the Lies and all th• other sins that are done in the World: As if Go• had given no such free-will to men or Devils, b• which they can Lye, Murder, hate God or commit any sin, till God move their Wills, Tongue and Hands to do it, by an unavoidable predetermining Efficiency. This is so much to profane a• take in vain Gods Name, as that it maketh him • Chief cause of all the Devils Works.
12. Another way of taking Gods Name prophane•, and pleading it for Vanity and Lyes, is by making God the determining first Cause of all the acts of men in the World, as •pecified by their objects and ⟨p. 270⟩circumstances; that is, of all the Lyes and all th• other sins that are done in the World: As if Go• had given no such free-will to men or Devils, b• which they can Lye, Murder, hate God or commit any sin, till God move their Wills, Tongue and Hands to do it, by an unavoidable predetermining Efficiency. This is so much to prophane a• take in vain Gods Name, as that it maketh him • Chief cause of all the Devils Works.