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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. If that be so, it is till then imperfect, and deprived of its desire, and so in pain and punishment?
A. It is not in its full Perfection; and it is a Degree of punishment to be in a state of Separation: But you cannot call it a pain as to sense, because it hath an unspeakable Glory, though not the most perfect. Nor hath the will of the Blessed any trouble and striving against the will of God, but takes that for best which God willeth: And so the separated state is best while God willeth it, though the united State will be best (as more perfect) in its time.
Q. 5. But the dust in a Grave is so vile a thing that one would think the raising it should not be very desirable to the Soul?
Q. 5. But the dust in a Grave is so vile a thing that one would think the raising it should not be very desireable to the Soul?
A. It shall not be raised in the shape of ugly Dust, or filth, nor of corruptible Flesh and Blood: But a Glorious and Spiritual Body; and a meet Companion for a Glorified Soul. And even now as vile as the Body is, you feel that the Soul is loth to part with it.