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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. 9. Is there no middle place between Heaven and Hell? or a middle state of Souls that are in hope of deliverance from their pain?
A. Hell it self is not all one Place, cseeing Devils are both in the Air and in the Earth, and where else we know not: And in Job 1. 11, 12. Satan was among the Sons of God. But as for any hope of deliverance to them that die unpardoned, the Scripture tells us of none, but saith that [the Night cometh when none can work] and that This is the accepted time: this is the Day of Salvation: And that [every Man shall be judged according to what he had done in the Body, whether it be good or evil.] It is therefore mad presumption for any one to neglect this Day of Salvation upon a hope of his own making, that they that die the Slaves of the Devil may repent and be delivered in their Airy Life, and be made the Children of God; or that any Purgatory fire shall refine them, or any Prayers of the Saints in Heaven or Earth deliver them.d
A. Hell it self is not all one Place, cseeing Devils are both in the Air and in the Earth, and where else we know not: And in Iob 1. 11, 12. Satan was among the Sons of God. But as for any hope of deliverance to them that die unpardoned, the Scripture tells us of none, buth saith that [the Night cometh when none can work] and that This is the accepted time: this is the Day of Salvation: And that [every Man shall be judged according to what he had done in the Body, whether it be good or evil.] It is therefore mad presumption for any one to neglect this Day of Salvation upon a hope of his own making, that they that die the Slaves of the Devil may repent and be delivered in their Airy Life, and be made the Children of God; or that any Purgatory fire shall refine them, or any Prayers of the Saints in Heaven or Earth deliver them.