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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. 2. How is it then that the Souls of Men are said sometimes to appear on Earth? Is it such Souls, or is it Devils?
A. Either is possible: For Souls are in no other Hell than Devils are, who are said to be in the Air, and to go to and fro, and tempt Men, and afflict them here on Earth: But when it is a Soul that appeareth, and ⟨p. 166⟩when a Devil, we have not acquaintance enough to know: But though God can for just Causes let a blessed Soul appear, as Moses with Enoch and Elijah did on the Mount, and perhaps Samuel to Saul, yet we have reason to suspect that it is the miserable Souls of the Wicked that oftenest appear.
A. Either is possible: For Souls are in no other Hell than Devils are, who are said to be in the Air, and to go to and fro, and tempt Men, and afflict them here on Earth: But when it is a Soul that appeareth, and ⟨p. 166⟩when a Devil, we have not acquaintance enough to know: But though God can for just Causes let a blessed Soul appear, as Moses with Henoch and Elias did on the Mount, and perhaps Samuel to Saul, yet we have reason to suspect that it is the miserable Souls of the Wicked that oftenest appear.
Q. 3. But how come Devils or Souls to be visible being Spirits?