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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.
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
4. And you must note, that the proof of Miracles lieth not on this, that Angels, or other Spirits, or Second Causes can do no such things, but that they cannot do it without God, and that God will not do it to confirm a Lie, or any thing which he would not have Man believe: For then either Man must believe nothing sent from God, though it were by an Host of Angels, or else he must say, I am unavoidably deceived by God himself; for I have no possible means left to know the Fallacy.