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The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for…
The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for the sake of those of them that have not yet sinned unto death and of those ungrounded novices that are most in danger of their seduction / by R[i]chard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
But I pray you if an hourglass be unlawful, tell us whether a Clock be lawful, or a Dial, or a Watch? or whether it be lawful to observe by the Sun how the time passeth? and why one is more unlawful then another?
But I pray you if an hourglasse be unlawful, tell us whether a Clock be lawful, or a Diall, or a Watch? or whether it be lawful to observe by the Sun how the time passeth? and why one is more unlawful then another?
But your Prater told me, it was a limiting of the Spirit of God; As if I cannot limit my self and not limit the Spirit? Or as if the Spirit excluded Reason and Prudence, and set a mans tongue a going, so that he cannot stop it. Did the Apostles stint the Spirit because they appointed their meetings on the Lords Day, and did not stay two or three days together? why then may not we resolve upon an hour as well as they did on a day, For one is limiting as well as the other. I think if I had your Spirit to liquor my tongue, I should be angry at the hourglass, and preach the people of out the place.
But your Prater told me, it was a limiting of the Spirit of God; As if I cannot limit my self and not limit the Spirit? Or as if the Spirit excluded Reason and Prudence, and set a mans tongue a going, so that he cannot stop it. Did the Apostles stint the Spirit because they appointed their meetings on the Lords Day, and did not stay two or three daies together? why then may not we resolve upon an hour as well as they did on a day, For one is limiting as well as the other. I think if I had your Spirit to liquor my tongue, I should be angry at the hourglasse, and preach the people of out the place.
And for a Text: 1. Know you not that Christ himself took a Text, Luk. 4