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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. 6. And what do you next know of your self?
A. When I know what I Do, and that I can do it, I know next that I am a Substance endued with this Power; for nothing hath no Power nor Act, it can do nothing.
Q. 7. What know you next of your self?
A. I know that this Substance which Thinketh, Understandeth and Willeth, is an unseen Substance, for neither I nor any mortal Man seeth it, and that is it which is called a Spirit.
Q. 8. What next perceive you of your self?