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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.
A. A Man of sound senses and understanding knoweth them to be such as Sense apprehendeth, whil• they are rightly set before him; the Eye seeth Light and Colours, the Ear heareth Sounds and words, and so of the rest; and the sound Understanding judgeth them to be such as the sense perceiveth, unless distance or false Mediums deceive us.b
A. A Man of sound senses and understanding knoweth them to be such as Sense apprehendeth, whil• they are rightly set before him; the Eye seeth Ligh• and Colours, the Ear heareth Sounds and words, and so of the rest; and the sound Understanding judgeth them to be such as the sense perceiveth, unles• distance or false Mediums deceive us.b
Q. 3. But how know you that sense is not deceived? you say that is Bread and Wine in the Sacrament, which the Papists say is not?
A. God hath given us no other faculties bu• Sense, by which to judge of sensible things, as Light and Darkness, Heat and Cold, Sweet and Bitter, Soft and Hard, &c. Therefore if we be here deceived, God is our Deceiver, and we are remediless; even Faith and Reason suppose our Senses, and their true Perception; and if that first Perception