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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. It is folly to be stalled at the Believing of any thing, which we once are sure that God revealeth, considering how unmeet our shallow Wit is to judge of the things of infinite Wisdom, to us unseen.m
2. To Holy illuminated prepared Souls, Belief is not so hard: It's Blindness and Vice that make it difficult.
3. God did not become Man, by any Change of his Godhead; nor by confining his Essence to the Manhood of Christ: But, 1. By taking the humane Nature into a special Aptitude for hi• Operations. 2. And so Relating it nearly to himself. 3. And Operating peculiarly in and on it, as he doth ⟨p. 67⟩not on any other Creature. And when all are agreed that God is essentially every where, and is as near us as we are our selves, and more the Cause of all good which we do than we our selves are; it will be harder to show that he is not Hypostatically united to every Man, than that he is so to Christ, (Though the foresaid Aptitude of Christ's humane Nature, and the Relation and Operation of the Divine, indeed make that vast difference.) If God can so peculiarly Operate in and by our humane Nature, where lieth the Incredibility?
3. God did not become Man, by any Change of his Godhead; nor by confining his Essence to the Manhood of Christ: But, 1. By taking the humane Nature into a special Aptitude for hi Operations. 2. And so Relating it neerly to himself. 3. And Operating peculiarly in and on it, as he doth