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Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein…
Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein all the necessary points of religion are methodically proposed in Scripture-language, abundantly confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, and in some places concisely expounded : in the whole, all controversies are warily shunned, so that all true Christians, of what persuasion soever, may (if they need the help of others) use this catechism for their children, or others that are under their power and card / written upon request, by a lover of truth and peace.Catechistical guide to sinners, and to such converts that are babes in Christ wherein all the necessary points of religion are methodically proposed in Scripture-language, abundantly confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, and in some places concisely expounded : in the whole, all controversies are warily shunn'd, so that all true Christians, of what persuassion soever, may (if they need the help of others) use this catechism for their children, or others that are under their power and card / written upon request, by a lover of truth and peace.
London: printed by J.D., 1680
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A. By this, That God is Happy or Blessed, we may conceive that God hath full and eternal Satisfaction, Joy, and Pleasure in his own Self, and in his own Works.
Q. You having now spoken of the first Reason, Why God is said to be a Spirit, namely, Because he is more excellent than all things, it remains that you speak of the second Reason, which was this, Because the Spirit of ⟨p. 36⟩Man may be unto us, in some manner, a shadow of God; whence we may have somewhat a more particular conception of him: Wherefore I now ask you, In what the Spirit of Man may be unto us, in some manner, a shadow of God?
A. The Spirit of Man may be unto us, in some manner, a shadow of God, in that we may thence conceive, in some manner, what God is not, and what he is.
Q. What do you thence conceive, That God is not?