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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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So he was a thankful man, and ready to give thanks for a benefit. So must we be to all that have pleasured us, though they be far less persons, and have pleasured us in far lesser things. And thus of Jacobs virtues.
So he was a thankfull man, and ready to give thankes for a benefit. So must we be to all that have pleasured us, though they be far lesse persons, and have pleasured us in far lesser things. And thus of Iacobs vertues.
Now of his faults, which are neither many nor great,1 but some they were, as there was never any man (except our Lord Jesus Christ) in whom some sin was not found:
Now of his faults, which are neither many nor great,1 but some they were, as there was never any man (except our Lord Iesus Christ) in whom some sin was not found:
- 1His faults.
First then, he was somewhat faulty towards God,1 in that he did show himself a little forgetful of his Vow made to God in his trouble, and deferred the performance of it somewhat too long, even till the Lord did force him unto it by a sore chastisement, and that chastisement would not serve to revive his memory, till in a Vision the Lord spake unto him, and wished him to go to Bethel, and there to rear an Altar unto him, that had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother. It was twenty years space betwixt the Vow, and Jacobs return, so that it may seem that Jacob had well near forgotten the Vow. A good man may grow forgetful of a Vow in twenty years, and indeed omissions through forgetfulness and commissions through inconsiderateness, are not unwonted in good men. I pray you look that none of you offend through the same example of forgetfulness; indeed there are greater faults, but a good man must show his uprightness by forsaking all faults, great as well as small, and small as well as great.