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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. 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 ⟨p. 7⟩be false, Faith and Reason could be no truer: God expecteth not that we should Judge by other Faculties than such as he hath given us for the Perception of those Objects.
A. God hath given us no other faculties bu• Sense, by which to judge of sensible things, as Ligh• 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 ⟨p. 7⟩be false, Faith and Reason could be no truer: God expecteth not that we should Judge by other Faculties than such as he hath given us for the Perception of those Objects.
Q. 4. What doth a Man first perceive of himself?
A. We first feel that we are real Beings; and we perceive that we use and have our Senses, that we See, Hear, Feel, Smell, Taste; and then we perceive that we Understand and Think of the things so Seen, Felt, &c. And that we gather one thing from another, and that we Love Good, and Hate Evil; and Choose, Refuse, and Do accordingly.