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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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how eagerly do we follow them? how overmuch do we rejoice in them! Certainly this argueth a great deal of folly. For to mistake the worth and prices of things, is a special point of folly; we do for the most part live like men of the world, that are not acquainted with any things more excellent than the vanities of this life: We think not of our mortality and uncertainty of earthly things, we have our consolation in earth, rather than heaven.
how eagerly doe we follow them? how overmuch doe we rejoyce in them! Certainly this argueth a great deale of folly. For to mistake the worth and prices of things, is a speciall point of folly; we doe for the most part live like men of the world, that are not acquainted with any things more excellent than the vanities of this life: We thinke not of our mortality and uncertainty of earthly things, wee have our consolation in earth, rather than heaven.
This worldly mindedness is to be observed, confessed, lamented, refused; we must blame our selves for it, as for a great fault, and must oppose it with serious meditations, of earth, and heaven, and of our mortality.
This worldly mindednesse is to be observed, confessed, lamented, refused; we must blame our selves for it, as for a great fault, and must oppose it with serious meditations, of earth, and heaven, and of our mortality.
We must earnestly pray to God to divorce us from the world, and to pull our hearts upward, that we may not be glued as it were to this dirt and dung. To see this fault, is a sign of some true grace; for the world will not see it to be a fault, that they are over earnestly bent unto the world; as the Fish finds it not troublesome to live in the waters.