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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. 1. I shall first mind you, that though we were never so uncertain of the Nature of a Miracle, whether it be wrought by any Created Cause, yet we are agreed that by Miracles, we mean such works which are wrought quite out of and against the common Course of Second Causes, called Nature: And we are sure that as no work can be done without Gods premotion or permission at least, so specially the Course of Nature cannot be altered and over-ruled but by Gods Knowledge, Consent and Execution; what ever Second Cause unknown to us may be in it, certainly God is the first Cause.
2. And it is most certain that the Most perfect Governor of the World, is not the great Deceiver of the World, and is not so wanting in Power, Wisdom and Goodness as to Rule them by a Lie; yea, and an unresistible and remediless deceit: This is rather the description of Satan.
2. And it is most certain that the Most perfect Governour of the World, is not the great Deceiver of the World, and is not so wanting in Power, Wisdom and Goodness as to Rule them by a Lie; yea, and an unresistible and remediless deceit: This is rather the description of Satan.
3. And Man must know the will of God by some signs or other, or else he cannot do it: And what signs can the Wit of Man devise, by which ⟨p. 48⟩they that would fain know the will of God, may come to be certain of it, if such a Course of Miracles may deceive us? Would you believe if some came from the dead as Witnesses? Or if an Angel or many Angels came from Heaven? All these could give you no more certainty than such Miracles may do.t
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