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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.
Q. 31. But it is so transcendently above all the Works of Nature, that such condescension of God is hard to be believed?
A. Great Works best beseem the Infinite God: Is not the make of the whole World as wonderful, and yet certain? Gods Love and Goodness must have wonderful products as well as his Power.
But is it not very congruous to Nature and Reason, that God should have Mercy on lapsed man? And that he should restore depraved humane Nature? And that he should do this great work like his Greatness and Goodness, and above Mans shallow reach? And that Polluted Souls should not have immediate access to the most Holy, but by a Holy Mediator? And that Mankind should have one Universal Head and Monarch in our own Nature? And that when even Heathens are conscious of the great need of some Divine revelations, besides the light of Nature, and therefore consult their Oracles and Augurs, that God should give us a certain Messenger from Heaven to teach us necessary Truth? Many such Congruities I have opened in the Reasons of the Christian Religion, Part 2. Ch. 5.
But is it not very congruous to Nature and Reason, that God should have Mercy on lapsed man? And that he should restore depraved humane Nature? And that he should do this great work like his Greatness and Goodness, and above Mans shallow reach? And that Polluted Souls should not have immediate access to the most Holy, but by a Holy Mediator? And that Mankind should have one Universal Head and Monarch in our own Nature? And that when even Heathens are conscious of the great need of some Divine revelations, besides the light of Nature, and therefore consult their Oracles and Augurs, that God should give us a certain Menssenger from Heaven to teach us necessary Truth? Many such Congruities I have opened in the Reasons of the Christian Religion, Part 2. Ch. 5.