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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. 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.h
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 Tryals in Corruptible Flesh: Heaven is the place where ⟨p. 92⟩God doth manifest his Glory, and from whence he sendeth down those Influences which maintai• 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.h
Q. 16. Were there no more Worlds made and dissolved before this: It seems unlikely that God from all Eternity should make nothing till less than Six Thousand Years ago; when he is a communicative Good, and delighteth to do good in his Works?