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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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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.
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 signe 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 findes it not troublesome to live in the waters.
And now let me call upon you, to be heavenly minded hereafter, to use this world as though you did not use it, to set it lower than spiritual graces, and than the hope of heavenly things. A child is wedded to his gauds so long as his childishness prevaileth, but when he hath gotten more mature understanding, he rejecteth them, and minds other things; so must we if we will show our selves to be perfect men in understanding. If a master sets his servant to gather chips, he doth it, and should do it diligently in obedience to his master; but still he takes not the chips for excellent things, but reckons of them as of chips: so for conscience sake to God must we labour in the world, yet still so, that we account the world as a vain shadow, and must show that we so esteem it, by being satisfied even with a small portion, if God see it fit to give us no more; and by being well contented if we have food and raiment; yea, and patient too, if we be put to suffer need, and want them.