A practical and short exposition of the catechism of the Church of England by way of question and answer. Wherein the divine authority and reasonableness of every question and answer, every doctrin and practice in it recommended, are evidenced and improved against most contemners of it and dissenters from it. With that moderation and plainness that it may engage all to adhere to, and especially may instruct children in the true Protestant religion of the Church of England. Humbly offered for the good of schools and youth. By Nathanael Taylor, M.A.
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A practical and short exposition of the catechism of the Church of England by way of question and answer. Wherein the divine authority and reasonableness of every question and answer, every doctrin and practice in it recommended, are evidenced and improved against most contemners of it and dissenters from it. With that moderation and plainness that it may engage all to adhere to, and especially may instruct children in the true Protestant religion of the Church of England. Humbly offered for the good of schools and youth. By Nathanael Taylor, M.A.
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Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.
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London :: printed by Fr. Clark for Richard Butler next door to the Lamb and Three Bowls in Barbican,
1683.
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Church of England -- Catechisms -- Early works to 1800.
Catechisms, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"A practical and short exposition of the catechism of the Church of England by way of question and answer. Wherein the divine authority and reasonableness of every question and answer, every doctrin and practice in it recommended, are evidenced and improved against most contemners of it and dissenters from it. With that moderation and plainness that it may engage all to adhere to, and especially may instruct children in the true Protestant religion of the Church of England. Humbly offered for the good of schools and youth. By Nathanael Taylor, M.A." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64231.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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(2.) As they Witness the Being of a Deity, so they ascribe to him Mans Creation.
Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius AltaeDeerat adhuc, & quod dominari in caetera possit;Natus Homo est, sive hunc Divino semine fecitIlle Opifex rerum, mundi melioris origoSive recens tellus seductaque nuper ab altoAethere, cognati retinebat semina CoeliQuam satus Iapeto mistam fluvialibus undisFinxit in Effigiem moderantum cuncta Deorum.Pronaque cum spectant animalia caetera ter∣ramOs Homini sublime dedit, Coelumcue vile••••Juss••, & erectos ad sydera tollere vult••••.Ovid. Met. Lib. 1.
Animum ipsum, mentemque homi••••, ra∣••nem, consilium, prudentiam, qui non Di∣vina
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cura perfecta esse perspicit, is his ipsis rebus mihi videtur carere.
Cicero lib. 2. de nat. Deorum.
Animal hoc providum, sagax, multiplex, acutum, memor, plenum rationis & consilii quem vocamus Hominem praeclara quadam con∣ditione generatus est a summo Deo.
Cicer. lib. 1. de Legibus. Ubi plura.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 — Phocil. v. 102.
— 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Pythag. v. 63.
Notes
Huic simile occurrit Virgilu Aenead. 6. — illis Coe∣lestis Origo.