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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.
But it belongeth to the Magistrate only (though not to destroy any of the three former Governments, which are all before his in Nature and Time, yet) to Govern them all, by directing the exercise of them in lawful things to the common good.
Q. 16. How far doth the Law of Nature assure us of Gods rewards and punishments?
A. As it assureth us that perfect man owed God perfect Obedience, Trust and Love, so it certifieth us, 1. That this performed must needs be acceptable to God, and tend to the felicity of the Subject, seeing Gods Love is our Felicity. 2. And that sinning against Gods Law deserveth Punishment. 3. And that Governing Justice must make such a difference between the obedient and the sinner, as the Ends of Government require. 4. And seeing that before mans obedience or sin, God made mans Soul of a Nature not tending to its own mortality, we have cause to expect that mans Rewards and Punishments should be suitable to such immortal Souls. For though he can make Brutes immortal, and can annihilate mans Soul or any Creature, yet we see that he keeps so close to his Natural Establishments, that we have no reason to ⟨p. 26⟩think that he will cross them here, and annihilate Souls to shorten their Rewards or Punishments.
A. As it assureth us that perfect man owed God perfect Obedience, Trust and Love, so it certifieth us, 1. That this performed must needs be acceptable to God, and tend to the felicity of the Subject, seeing Gods Love is our Felicity. 2. And that sinning against Gods Law deserveth Punishment. 3. And that Governing Justice must make such a difference between the obedient and the sinner, as the Ends of Government require. 4. And seeing that before mans obedience or sin, God made mans Soul of a Nature not tending to its own mortality, we have cause to expect that mans Rewards and Punishments should be suitable to such immortal Souls. For though he can make Bruits immortal, and can annihilate mans Soul or any Creature, yet we see that he keeps so close to his Natural Establishments, that we have no reason to