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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. 10. But when we cannot conceive how Souls act out of the Body, how can the Thought of it be pleasant and satisfying to us?
A. 1. We that can conceive what it is to Live and Understand, and Will, to Love and Rejoice in the Body, may understand what these acts are in themselves, whether out of a Body or in a more glorious Body: And we can know that nothing doth nothing; and therefore that the Soul that doth these acts is a Noble substance, and we find that it is invisible. But of this I spake in the beginning.
2. When we know in general all before mentioned, that we shall be in that described Blessedness with Christ and the Heavenly Society, we must implicitly trust Christ with all the rest, who knoweth for us what we know not: and stay till possession give us that clear distinct conception of the manner, and all the circumstances, which they that possess it not, can no more have, than we can conceive of the sweetness of a Meat or Drink which we never tasted of: And we should long the more for that Possession which will give us that sweet Experience.
Q. 11. Is not God the only Glory and Joy of the Blessed? Why then do you tell us so much of Angels and Saints, and the City of God?