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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 how come Devils or Souls to be visible being Spirits?
A. Spirits are powerful, and dwell in Airy and other Elementary matter, in which they can appear to us, as easily as we can put on our Clothes. Fire is invisible in its simple unclothed substance; and yet when it hath kindled the Air it is visible Light.
A. Spirits are powerful, and dwell in Airy and other Elementary matter, in which they can appear to us, as easily as we can put on our Cloaths. Fire is invisible in its simple uncloathed substance; and yet when it hath kindled the Air it is visible Light.
Q. 4. Why then do they appear so seldom?
A. God restraineth evil Spirits, and keepeth them within their bounds that they may not either deceive or trouble Mankind: And the Spirits of the just are more inclined to their higher Nobler Region and Work: and God will have us here live by Faith, and not by seeing either the heavenly Glory or its Inhabitants.