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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. God is essentially LIFE, UNDERSTANDING and WILL, or VITAL-POWER, WISDOM and GOODNESS or LOVE, in one substance; and this in absolute Perfection.c
Q. 5. But are not all the rest of his Attributes Essential?
A. Yes; But they are but these same Named variously, from their various respects to the Creatures: such are his Truth, his Justice, and his Mercy, as he is our Governor: His Bounty, as our Benefactor; and his Self-sufficiency, Eternity, Immensity, or Infiniteness, his Immutability, Immortality, Invisibility, and very many such respective Names, are comprehended in his PERFECTION.d
A. Yes; But they are but these same Named variously, from their various respects to the Creatures: such are his Truth, his Iustice, and his Mercy, as he is our Governour: His Bounty, as our Benefactor; and his Self-sufficiency, Eternity, Immensity, or Infiniteness, his Immutability, Immortality, Invisibility, and very many such respective Names, are comprehended in his PERFECTION.d