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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. 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?
A. I Perceive that in this one Substance there is a Threefold Power, marvellously but One, and yet Three as Named from the Objects and Effects, that is, 1. A Power of mere Growing motion, common to Plants. 2. A Power of Sense common to Beasts. ⟨p. 8⟩3. And a Power of Understanding and Reason about things above Sense, proper to a Man; three Powers in one spiritual Substance.
A. I Perceive that in this one Substance there is a Threefold Power, marvellously but One, and yet Three as Named from the Objects and Effects, that is, 1. A Power of meer Growing motion, common to Plants. 2. A Power of Sense common to Beasts. ⟨p. 8⟩