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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. 7. If it do not so, doth it not tend to deceive us, that never heard of any other kind of Person?
A. The Scripture tells us that there are Three, and yet but eOne God, but it giveth us not a Name which may notify clearly so great a Mystery, for it is unsearchable and incomprehensible: We are to be Baptized into the Name of the Father, Son, ⟨p. 84⟩and Holy Ghost, Matth. 28. 29. And there are three that bear Record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one, 1 Joh. 5. 7. But the custom of the Church having used the word [PERSON] having none that clearly expresseth the Mystery, it is our part rather to labour to understand it, how a Divine Person differ• from a Humane, than to quarrel with an improper word: GOD is ONE Infinite undivided Spirit• and yet that he is FATHER, SON and HOLY GHOST, must be believed.
A. The Scripture tells us that there are Three, and yet but eOne God, but it giveth us not a Name which may notifie clearly so great a Mystery, for it is unsearchable and incomprehensible: We are to be Baptized into the Name of the Father, Son, ⟨p. 84⟩and Holy Ghost, Matth. 28. 29. And there are three that bear Record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one, 1 Ioh. 5. 7. But the custom of the Church having used the word [PERSON] having none that clearly expresseth the Mystery, it is our part rather to labour to understand it, how a Divine Person differ from a Humane, than to quarrel with an imprope word: GOD is ONE Infinite undivided Spirit and yet that he is FATHER, SON and HOLY GHOST, must be believed.