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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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If any say, his state is so poor that he cannot. I answer.
If any say, his state is so poore that he cannot. I answer.
God hath propounded this as a means to get riches; and the poor man hath no reason to think that Gods means will be unavailable.
God hath propounded this as a meanes to get riches; and the poore man hath no reason to thinke that Gods meanes will bee unavaileable.
But a poor necessitous man that is fain to live of the bounty much what of others, must not be a rule for those that have better ⟨p. 54⟩estates. I am verily persuaded, that one great cause of many a Christian mans poverty, is this; he honours not God with his riches, and why should God make him rich? If we see a man not to honour God with his wit and strength, and then God deprive him of wit and strength; Do we not readily impute this cross to the desert of that sin? and why are we not induced to conclude, God doth not prosper this man in his estate, because he did not honour God with his estate? And so much for Jacobs devotion in vowing, and the things vowed.
But a poore necessitous man that is faine to live of the bounty much what of others, must not be a rule for those that have better ⟨p. 54⟩estates. I am verily perswaded, that one great cause of many a Christian mans poverty, is this; he honours not God with his riches, and why should God make him rich? If we see a man not to honour God with his wit and strength, and then God deprive him of wit and strength; Doe we not readily impute this crosse to the desert of that sin? and why are we not induced to conclude, God doth not prosper this man in his estate, because he did not honour God with his estate? And so much for Iacobs devotion in vowing, and the things vowed.