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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. 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.
Q. 5. What do you next know of your selves?
A. When we perceive that we See, Feel, &c. and Think, Love, Hate, &c. we know that we have a Power of Soul to do all this, for no one doth that which he is not made able to do.
Q. 6. And what do you next know of your self?