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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 another fault is,1 that after God had censured him for his offence, he grumbled and despaired, for his speeches carry an impression of both these vices, and are uttered, so that they will bear both renderings, My sin is greater then can be pardoned, or, My punishment is greater then I can bear. So Cain was possessed with a mixture of desperateness and murmuring, he denies God the honour of his mercy in not conceiving him able to forgive that sin, therefore he thought it in vain to confess and ask pardon and so forbore to do it, and he thought the punishment unjust and too severe, as being more then he could bear, as if God in punishing an unpenitent sinner should look not what the sin did deserve, but what the sinner could undergo. Whereas punishment must be proportioned to the greatness of the fault, not the strength of the offender. He should have cried out of the greatness of the sin, not of the punishment, he should have confessed the greatness of Gods mercy, but he mutters against him as both unjust and unmerciful, and so repents not but repines, complaining that God had laid him open to all mens injuries now, so that every one might kill him. This is a Cain, a man so hardened with sin that he can neither submit to Gods justice nor implore ⟨p. 22⟩his mercy, but denies the one, and calumniates the other, and so persists impenitently.
Now another fault is,1 that after God had censured him for his offence, he grumbled and despaired, for his speeches carry an impression of both these vices, and are uttered, so that they will beare both renderings, My sinne is greater then can be pardonad, or, My punishment is greater then I can beare. So Caine was possessed with a mixture of desperatenesse and murmuring, he denies God the honour of his mercy in not conceiving him able to forgive that sin, therfore he thought it in vaine to confesse and aske pardon and so forbare to doe it, and he thought the punishment unjust and too severe, as being more then hee could beare, as if God in punishing an unpenitent sinner should looke not what the sinne did deserve, but what the sinner could undergoe. Whereas punishment must be proportioned to the greatnesse of the fault, not the strength of the offendor. He should have cryed out of the greatnesse of the sinne, not of the punishment, hee should have confessed the greatnesse of Gods mercy, but he mutters against him as both unjust and unmercifull, and so repents not but repines, complaining that God had laide him open to all mens injuries now, so that every one might kill him. This is a Caine, a man so hardned with sinne that he can neither submit to Gods justice nor implore