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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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Now let me put you in mind of your former forgetfulness: Is there none of you that hath formerly bound himself to God by a Vow, and hath either deferred wittingly, or put off through forgetfulness the accomplishment of it? If so, let him now be induced to remember himself, and to make all convenient hast to make good his Vow, for fear the Lord send some heavy cross upon him, and ⟨p. 80⟩waken his conscience by terrors. Jacob should have considered his promise to God so soon as the Lord had brought him safely home to his Fathers house, but it seemeth he deferred it, for that was the time prescribed in his Vow.
Now let me put you in minde of your former forgetfulnesse: Is there none of you that hath formerly bound himselfe to God by a Vow, and hath either deferred wittingly, or put off through forgetfulnesse the accomplishment of it? If so, let him now be induced to remember himselfe, and to make all convenient hast to make good his Vow, for feare the Lord send some heavy crosse upon him, and ⟨p. 80⟩waken his conscience by terrours. Iacob should have considered his promise to God so soone as the Lord had brought him safely home to his Fathers house, but it seemeth he deferred it, for that was the time prescribed in his Vow.
I pray you do as Jacob should have done, not as he did, in a thing wherein it is evident that he did amiss, and call to mind often the words of Solomon, 1When thou vowest a Vow unto the Lord, defer not to pay it, for he hath no pleasure in fools; pay what thou owest: and before him Moses in the Law saith,2 Be not slack to perform thy Vows. If you have tied your souls in an oath to God, defer not from day today, be not forgetful.