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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We must walk with God, live to him, seek him, please him, or else some bare naked good deeds will not suffice to prove us his children and his heirs.
Wee must walke with God, live to him, seeke him, please him, or else some bare naked good deeds will not suffice to prove us his children and his heires.
First, to God-ward,1 though he had Jacob living in his house, and had observed by experience, that God did bless him for his sake, yet he would not leave his false gods, his Idols, his Teraphim, but keep them still, and made such store of them, that he took it very ill that Jacob should steal them away, as he conceived he had done, though falsely, and therefore also he sware by the gods of Nahor, and the gods of their Fathers.
First, to God-ward,1 though hee had Iacob living in his house, and had observed by experience, that God did blesse him for his sake, yet hee would not leave his false gods, his Idols, his Teraphim, but keepe them still, and made such store of them, that hee tooke it very ill that Iacob should steale them away, as hee conceived hee had done, though falsly, and therefore also hee sware by the gods of Nahor, and the gods of their Fathers.