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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.
A. Its one thing to ask, How▪ they themselves ⟨p. 29⟩were sure that they were not deceived; and another thing to ask, How we are or others may be sure of it: As to the first, they were sure as men are of other things which they see, hear, feel, and think. I am sure by sense and intellectual Perception that I see the light, that I hear, feel, think, &c. The Revelation cometh to the person in its own convincing Evidence, as Light doth to the Eye.f
A. Its one thing to ask, How▪ they themselves ⟨p. 29⟩were sure that they were not deceived; and another thing to ask, How we are or others may be sure of it: As to the first, they were sure as men are of other things which they see, hear, feel, and think. I am sure by sense and intellectual Preception that I see the light, that I hear, feel, think, &c. The Revelation cometh to the person in its own convincing Evidence, as Light doth to the Eye.f
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Q. 4. They know what they see, hear, feel; but how were they sure that it was of God, and not by some deceiving Cause?
A. 1. God himself gave them the Evidence of this also in the Revelation, that it was from him and no deceit. But it is no more possible for any of us that never had such a Revelation our selves, to know sensibly and formally what it is, and how they knew it, than it is for a man born blind to know how other men see, or what seeing is. 2. But moreover, they also were sure that it was of God, by the proofs by which they make us sure of it: And this leads us up to the other question.