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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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For first, he divided his family into two parts, saying, If Esau come and smite the one company, the other shall escape.
Secondly, He prayed earnestly to God to save him from the hands of his brother, whom he greatly feared.
Thirdly, he presenteth him with a large present, and set a space betwixt drove and drove, commanding them to answer his brother with all submissness; saying when they should be asked, Whose are these before thee? They be thy brother Jacobs. It is a present sent to my Lord Esau, and he is behind us: and so the second and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, I will pacify him with a gift that goeth before me, and afterwards, I will see his face, peradventure he will accept of me, and then having wrestled with God, Chap. 32. he saw his brother coming, and divided his children to Leah and Rachel, and the young maidens, and setting the hand maids first, then Leah, then Rachel, himself went before them, and fell on the ground seven times, and did obeisance, and so caused the handmaids and his wives to do the like, and so by his submissive carriage he pacified his brothers anger, and God working with his prudence, found him exceeding kind and loving: and when he would have gone before him, excuseth himself by the pace of the young Infants and cattle, he avoided his company, and by pressing caused him to receive the gift, and in very modest manner refused the train which his brother left with him, and escaped his hands. So he proved that to be true, which after Solomon told, That a gift in the bosom pacifieth great wrath, Prov. 21.14. And a gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it, and it prospereth whithersoever it goeth,