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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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Q. What are those Powers of an humane Spirit, which as respecting inward Actings, and which as endued with Virtues, may shadow forth unto us the Nature of God?
Q. What are those Powers of an humane Spirit, which as respecting inward Actings, and which as endued with Vertues, may shadow forth unto us the Nature of God?
A. These Powers are those which ⟨p. 39⟩we commonly call the Understanding and the Will.
Q. What do you conceive concerning God, from that in the Spirit of Man, which we call the Understanding?
Q. What do you conceive concerning God, from that in the Spirit of Man, which we call the Ʋnderstanding?
A. I conceive thence, that God who is Eternal and Almighty, hath Knowledge and Wisdom, wherein he excelleth all others, as being perfect in both, and having no Instructor nor Counsellor with him, but is the giver of all Knowledge and Wisdom.