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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.
Q. 4. What then is Gods Law of Nature, made for man?
A. It is the signification of Gods Governing Will, by the Nature of man himself, and of all other Creatures known to man, in which God declareth to man his Duty and his reward or punishment.
Q. 5. How can a man know Gods Will and our duty by his Nature, and by all other Works of God about us?
A. In some things as surely as by words or writings; but in other things more darkly. I am sure that my Nature is made to Know and Love Truth and Goodness, and to desire and seek my own Felicity: My Nature tells me that I was not made by my self, and do not live by my Self, and therefore that I am not my own, but his that made me: All things show me that there is a God who must needs be Greater, Wiser and Better than all his Creatures, and therefore ought to be most Honoured, Feared, Loved and Obeyed: I see multitudes of persons of the same Nature with me, and therefore obliged to the same duty to ⟨p. 21⟩God; I see much of Gods work in them which is Good, and therefore to be Loved: And I see that we are all parts of one World, and made to be useful to one another: These and many such things the Reason of man may discern in himself and other works of God.