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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. 12. But may not [Everlasting] signify only a long time, as it oft doth in Scripture, and so all may be in mutable Revolutions, as the Stoics and some others thought?
Q. 12. But may not [Everlasting] signifie only a long time, as it oft doth in Scripture, and so all may be in mutable Revolutions, as the Stoicks and some others thought?
A. 1. What reason have we to extort a forced sense against our own Interest and Comfort, without any warrant from God? 2. The nature of the Soul being so far Immortal as to have no Inclination to its own death, Why should we think it strange that its felicity should be also everlasting. 3. It can hardly be conceived how that Soul can possibly revolt from God and perish, who is once confirmed with that sight of his Glory, and the full fruition of his Love. Whether Nature be so bad as to allow such a revolt? If the Devils had bin as near God, and as much confirmed in the Sight and Sense of his Love and Glory, as ••e Blessed shall be, I can hardly conceive how they could possibly have fallen.
A. 1. What reason have we to extort a forced sence against our own Interest and Comfort, without any warrant from God? 2. The nature of the Soul being so far Immortal as to have no Inclination to its own death, Why should we think it strange that its felicity should be also everlasting. 3. It can hardly be conceived how that Soul can possibly revolt from God and perish, who is once confirmed with that sight of his Glory, and the full fruition of his Love. Whether Nature be so bad as to allow such a revolt? If the Devils had bin as near God, and as much confirmed in the Sight and Sense of his Love and Glory, as ••e Blessed shall be, I can hardly conceive how they could possibly have fallen.