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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.
A. I see that I am a Member of the World of Mankind, and that others are better than I, and multitudes better than one; and that the Welfare of Mankind depends much on their Duty to one another; and therefore that I should Love all according to their worth, and faithfully endeavour the good of all.
Q. 13. What else know you of your self?
A. I know that I made not my self, and maintain not my self in Life and Safety, and therefore ⟨p. 9⟩that another made me and maintaineth me; and I know that I must Die by the Separation of my Soul and Body.
Q. 14. And can we tell what then becomes of the Soul?
A. I am now to tell you but how much of it our Nature tells us, the rest I shall tell you afterward; we may know, 1. That the Soul being a Substance in the Body, will be a Substance out of it, unless God should destroy it, which we have no cause to think he will. 2. That Life, Understanding and Will being its very Nature, it will be the same after Death, and not a thing of some other kind. 3. That the Soul being naturally Active, and the World full of Objects, it will not be a sleepy or unactive thing. 4. That its Nature here being to mind its Interest in another Life, by Hopes or Fears of what will follow, God made not its Nature such in vain, and therefore that Good or Evil in the Life that's next will be the Lot of all.