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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. 14. How gather you that he is our Father or Benefactor?
A. If we have our very Being from him, and all the Good that the whole Creation enjoyeth be his free Gift, then as he is LOVE it self, so he is the Great Benefactor of the World, but specially to his chosen faithful People: And no Man or Angel hath any thing that is good by way of merited exchange from God, but all is of free Gift: And we owe him our superlative Love, and and Thanks, and Praise.
Q. 15. Why are Heaven and Earth named as the parts of his Creation?
A. They are all that we are concerned to know: We partly see the difference between them, and Gods Word tells us of more than we see: Earth is the place of our present abode in our Life of Trials in Corruptible Flesh: Heaven is the place where ⟨p. 92⟩God doth manifest his Glory, and from whence he sendeth down those Influences which maintain Nature, and which communicate his Grace, and prepare us for the Glory which we shall enjoy in Heaven. By Heaven and Earth is meant all Creatures, both Spirits and Corporeal.