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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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Let us take heed of flying from God and of excusing our faults and casting the blame upon others, chiefly upon God himself, as Adam did, but let us rather confess, lament, and trust in his mercy, and implore it, then daub and dissemble, and think to escape by frivolous shifts and extenuations;1 and especially learn not to be proud of apparel which is no better then a badge of our wicked rebellion and of our shameful nakedness. Let us be the better for the things we know concerning Adam and Eve our first Parents.
Let us take heed of flying from God and of excusing our faults and casting the blame upon others, chiefely upon God himselfe, as Adam did, but let us rather confesse, lament, and trust in his mercy, and implore it, then dawbe and dissemble, and thinke to escape by frivolous shifts and extenuations;1 and especially learne not to be proud of apparell which is no better then a badge of our wicked rebellion and of our shamefull nakednesse. Let us be the better for the things we know concerning Adam and Eve our first Parents.
- 1We should not be proud of apparel.We should not bee proud of apparell.
Again, let us be careful to follow them in all good deeds which they did; O let us repent and believe in Christ hoping for life by him according to the Covenant of grace, as they did when they had broken the Covenant of Works. For by trusting in Christ we shall go to Heaven in the way of Evangelical obedience, standing in a resolution and endeavour not to sin, and a careful humbling our selves and ⟨p. 9⟩seeking pardon when we fail, as sure as they or we should have done in the way of Legal obedience, if they and we had remained innocent; and God will as surely enable us to this Evangelical obedience, if we seek to him for grace and the renewing of his Image in us, as he had enabled him to Legal and exact obedience. In truth Christ hath made the way to life eternal as easy to us in the path of the Gospel, as it was to him in the path of the Law, for we have grace to keep us from loving and serving sin as sure as he had power to abstain from committing sin. Say to your selves, Adams sin shall not damn me, if in sense of the misery which it brought upon me I can fully seek to Christ the promised seed.