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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. 8. I pray show me some such Instances?
Q. 8. I pray shew me some such Instances?
A. I. The Sun and all true Fire is One Substanc•• having Three Essential Powers, the Moving Powe• ▪ the Enlightening Power, and the Heating Power Motion is not Light, Light is not Heat, and He•• is not Motion or Light: Yet all are One Substanc•• and radically one Virtue or Power, and yet Three as Operative.
A. I. The Sun and all true Fire is One Substanc•• having Three Essential Powers, the Moving Powe• ▪ the Enlightning Power, and the Heating Power Motion is not Light, Light is not Heat, and He•• is not Motion or Light: Yet all are One Substanc•• and radically one Virtue or Power, and yet Three as Operative.
II. Every Plant hath One Vegetative principl•• which hath Essentially a Power Discretive, (a• discerning its own Nutriment) Appetitive, de• ring or drawing it in; and Motive, and so digestive and assimilative.