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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. No man Lieth, but either for want of Wi• dom to know the Truth, or for want of perfect ⟨p. 79⟩Goodness, or for want of Power to attain his Ends by better means. But the Infinite most Perfect God hath none of these defects.
2. No man Lyeth, but either for want of Wi• dom to know the Truth, or for want of perfec• ⟨p. 79⟩Goodness, or for want of Power to attain his Ends by better means. But the Infinite most Perfect God hath none of these defects.
Q. 3. But God speaketh to the World by Angels and Men; and who knows but they may be permitted to Lie?
A. When they speak to Man as sent by God, and God attesteth their credibility by uncontrolled Miracles or other Evidence; if then they should Lie, it would be imputable to God that attesteth their word: Of which I said enough to you before.