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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. 8. Because I have heard some say that God made no Government, but men do it by consent for their necessity, I pray you show me what Government God made by Nature, and in what order?
Q. 8. Because I have heard some say that God made no Government, but men do it by consent for their necessity, I pray you shew me what Government God made by Nature, and in what order?
A. 1. Next to Gods own Governing Right which is the first, God hath made every man a Governor of himself. For God made him with some faculties which must be ruled (as the Appetite, Senses, and Tongue, and other bodily members, yea and Passions too,) and with some which must Rule the rest, (as the Understanding by guidance, and the Will by command.) And this self-governing power, is so necessary and Natural, that no man can take it from us, or forbid us the due exercise of it, any more than they can bind us to sin or to self-destruction.
A. 1. Next to Gods own Governing Right which is the first, God hath made every man a Governour of himself. For God made him with some faculties which must be ruled (as the Appetite, Senses, and Tongue, and other bodily members, yea and Passions too,) and with some which must Rule the rest, (as the Understanding by guidance, and the Will by command.) And this self-governing power, is so necessary and Natural, that no man can take it from us, or forbid us the due exercise of it, any more than they can bind us to sin or to self-destruction.
Q. 9. Which is the next humane Power in order?