A15013:1262
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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1First, he gave him the privilege of the first-borne, that Christ should come of him, and that the visible Church should continue in his posterity: That part of the dignity of the primogeniture, to have Christ the blessed seed come of him, cannot be bestowed upon any of us: neither that, to have a great Nation flow from our loins: that shall be also the Church of God, and a Nation, in which true religion and piety shall be continued. But to have our children godly, and become members of the Church, that we must earnestly desire and seek for, and that we may hope for and attain, if we pray earnestly for it, and make our children as good as we can, by bringing them up in the true knowledge and worshipping of God.
1First, he gave him the priviledge of the first-borne, that Christ should come of him, and that the visible Church should continue in his posterity: That part of the dignity of the primogeniture, to have Christ the blessed seed come of him, cannot be bestowed upon any of us: neither that, to have a great Nation flow from our loines: that shall be also the Church of God, and a Nation, in which true religion and piety shall be continued. But to have our children godly, and become members of the Church, that we must earnestly desire and seeke for, and that we may hope for and attaine, if we pray earnestly for it, and make our children as good as we can, by bringing them up in the true knowledge and worshipping of God.
- 12. He had the privilege of the first-born.2. He had the priviledge of the first-born.