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Prototypes, or, The primary precedent presidents out of the book of Genesis showing, the…Prototypes, or, The primarie precedent presidents out of the booke of Genesis shewing, the…
Prototypes, or, The primary precedent presidents out of the book of Genesis showing, the [brace] good and bad things [brace] they did and had practically applied to our information and reformation / by that faithful and painful preacher of Gods word William Whately ... ; together with Mr. Whately's life and death ; published by Mr. Edward Leigh and Mr. Henry Scudder, who were appointed by the author to peruse his manuscripts, and printed by his own copy.Prototypes, or, The primarie precedent presidents out of the booke of Genesis shewing, the [brace] good and bad things [brace] they did and had practically applied to our information and reformation / by that faithfull and painefull preacher of Gods word William Whately ... ; together with Mr. Whatelyes life and death ; published by Mr. Edward Leigh and Mr. Henry Scudder, who were appointed by the authour to peruse his manuscripts, and printed by his owne coppy.
London: printed by G.M. for Edward Langham book-seller, 1640London: printed by G.M. for Edvvard Langham booke-seller, 1640
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First from their Creation,1 and the benefits bestowed upon them in and after their Creation; let us learn to acknowledge God to be our Creator, the Fountain of our being, and to submit our selves wholly to him in all things, seeing we have received our being from him; for in making them he made us in them, and whatsoever benefits he gave him in Creation, he gave them to us in him,2 seeing if he had not cast them away we should not have wanted them. We must not less praise God and be less thankful for that happy estate, because ⟨p. 8⟩Adam forfeited it; for his naughtiness in sinning cannot diminish the goodness of God in granting to him and his so great a heap of pleasures here with certainty of Eternal life after. Do you not see that God made us all to happiness and life in our first Parents, fitting all things, so that he might have stood and delivered over all those benefits unto us. Let us not murmur against God for the punishment justly inflicted upon us in them and on them for the sin committed by them; especially we must praise God for the promise of the seed of the Woman which now God hath performed to us, by whom salvation and life was offered and tendered to all, so that by the second Adam all might have received happiness as they lost it by the first, if the fault had not been and were not merely in themselves, that have been and are careless of Gods goodness neglecting to consider of his mercy, to believe in him and to turn to him.
First from their Creation,1 and the benefits bestowed upon them in and after their Creation; let us learne to acknowledge God to be our Creator, the Fountaine of our being, and to submit our selves wholy to him in all things, seeing we have received our being from him; for in making them he made us in them, and whatsoever benefits he gave him in Creation, he gave them to us in him,2 seeing if he had not cast them away we should not have wanted them. Wee must not lesse praise God and be lesse thankefull for that happy estate, because ⟨p. 8⟩