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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.
And to •eign such forgeries in the Book that all Christians have taken for Gods Laws, is just such another Case, and somewhat beyond it. That is but Moral Evidence which dependeth only on Mens Honesty, or any free unnecessary acts of Mans will. But Mans will hath also of Natural Necessity, such as the Love of our selves, and our felicity, &c. And it is a Natural Impossibility that all Men or many should agree in a Lie, which is against these Acts of Natural necessity. But so they must do, if all Men of cross Interests, Principles and Dispositions should knowingly agree; c. g. That all our Statutes are counterfeit, that there is no such place as Rome, Paris, or other such l••s. And so the Gospel History hath such Testimony of necessary Truth.
And to •eign such forgeries in the Book that all Christians have taken for Gods Laws, is just such another Case, and somewhat beyond it. That is but Moral Evidence which dependeth only on Mens Honesty, or any free unnecessary acts of Mans will. But Mans will hath also of Natural Necessity, such as the Love of our selves, and our felicity, &c. And it is a Natural Impossibility that all Men or many should agree in a Lie, which is against these Acts of Natural necessity. But so they must do, if all Men of cross Interests, Principles and Dispositions should knowingly agree; c. g. That all our Statutes are counterseit, that there is no such place as Rome, Paris, or other such l••s. And so the Gospel History hath such Testimony of necessary Truth.
Q. 26. You have made the Case plainer to me than I thought it had been: But you yet seem to intimate that some Words, yea, some Books of Scripture have not the same Evidence a• the rest: can a man be saved that Believeth not all the Scripture?