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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. 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.
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 shew 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.