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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.
6. Our reception and fruition will all be perfect. We shall be perfectly loved by God, and one another, and perfectly pleasing to him, and each other; and he will communicate to us and all the Society, as much Glorious Life, Light and Joyful Love, as we are capable of receiving.
7. And all this will be perfect in duration, being Everlasting.
Q. 9. O what manner of Persons should we be if all this were well believed? Is it possible that they should truly believe all this, who do not earnestly desire and seek it, and live in joyful longing hope to be put into possession of it?
A. Whoever truly believeth it, will prefer it before all Earthly treasure and pleasure, and make it the chief End and Motive and Comfort of his Soul and Life, and forsake all that stands against it rather than forsake his hopes of this. But while our Faith, Hope and Love are all imperfect, and we dwell in Flesh ⟨p. 170⟩where present and sensible things are still diverting and affecting us, and we are so used to Sight and Sense, that we look strangely towards that which is above them, and out of their reach: it is no wonder if we have imperfect desires and joy, abated by diversions, and by griefs and fears, and if in this darkness unseen things seem strange to us; and if a Soul united to a Body be loth to leave it, and be unclothed, and have somewhat dark Thoughts of that state without it, which it never tried.