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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. 3. But what good will a Resurrection of the Body do us, if the Soul be in happiness before?
A. 1. It will be for Gods Glory to make and bless a perfect Man: 2. It will be our Perfection: A whole Man is more Perfect than a Soul alone. 3. It will be the Souls delight:a As God that is perfectly blessed in himself, yet made and maintaineth a World, of which he is more than the Soul, because he is a Communicative good and pregnant, and delighteth to do good; so the Soul is made like God in his Image, and is communicative and would have a Body to act on. As the Sun, if there were nothing in the World ⟨p. 162⟩but it self, would be the same that it now is, but nothing would receive its Motion, Light or Heat, or be the better for it: And if you did imagine it to have understanding, you must think that it would be much more pleased to enlighten and enliven so many Millions of Creatures, and cause the flourishing of all the Earth, than to shine to nothing. So may you think of the Soul of Man: It is by God inclined to actuate a Body.
- aRev. 21. & 22.
Q. 4. If that be so, it is till then imperfect, and deprived of its desire, and so in pain and punishment?