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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.
Ans. How he Governeth the Spirits above us, whether by any Law besides the immediate Revelation of his Will seen in the face of his Glory, or how else, is not much known to us, because •t doth not concern us. But this lower World of man he Governeth by the Law of Nature, and by a Law of Supernatural Revelation, given by his Spirit or by Messengers from Heaven.
Ans. How he Governeth the Spirits above us, whether by any Law besides the immediate Re•elation of his Will seen in the face of his Glory, or how else, is not much known to us, because •t doth not concern us. But this lower World of man he Governeth by the Law of Nature, and by a Law of Supernatural Revelation, given by his Spirit or by Messengers from Heaven.
Q. 2. What is it that you Call the Law of Nature?
A. In a large and improper sense some call the inclinations, and forcing or naturally moving Causes of any Creatures, by the name of a Law: •nd so they say that Beasts and Birds are moved by the Law of their Nature; and that Stones sink downward, and the Fire goeth upward by the Law of Nature. But this is no Law in the Proper ⟨p. 20⟩sense which we are speaking of, whatever you Call it.
A. In a large and improper sence some call the •nclinations, and forcing or naturally moving Causes of any Creatures, by the name of a Law: •nd so they say that Beasts and Birds are moved by the Law of their Nature; and that Stones sink downward, and the Fire goeth upward by the Law of Nature. But this is no Law in the Proper