A15013:1464
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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1Also he had a state rich enough, he was a wealthy man in the place where he lived: Surely God that casts these things on such persons accounts them not excellent, and if he deny them to his servants, doth it not out of unwillingness or want of means, but alone because he knows it better for their souls to be destitute of them than to abound; wherefore they must learn contentment in their absence. And those that have them must take heed they over-prize them not, and suffer not themselves by having them to be made as Laban was, worldly minded.
1Also hee had a state rich enough, hee was a wealthy man in the place where hee lived: Surely God that casts these things on such persons accounts them not excellent, and if he deny them to his servants, doth it not out of unwillingnesse or want of meanes, but alone because hee knowes it better for their soules to bee destitute of them than to abound; wherefore they must learne contentment in their absence. And those that have them must take heed they over-prize them not, and suffer not themselves by having them to be made as Laban was, worldly minded.
- 12. He was rich
1Now for crosses: We read little of Labans affliction; it may be it was a grief to him that his daughters and grandchildren went so far from him, but such a cross even a natural wise man may make easy to himself, by considerations of reason, that the good of their children so requires, and that their comfort in their children stands not so much in seeing them, as in their well-doing: Only Laban did make Jacobs prosperity a cross to himself, in suffering his mind to be alienated from Jacob, because Jacob did thrive a great deal faster than himself, and to his hinderance, which cannot be done without a great deal of vexation.