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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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Also satisfy your selves with one wife, for Cain did so, he knew his wife, wives he had not.
Also satisfie your selves with one wife, for Caine did so, he knew his wife, wives he had not.
Yea, be builders up of your families by thrift and husbandry, for so could Cain, not pullers of them down by riot and unthriftiness: say to thyself, How shall this first of all bad men rise up in judgement against me, if I cannot frame my self at least to be as good as he was? A man should even blush to think what is the eldest son of the Devil more virtuous then I am, O how bad a man am I then.
Yea, be builders up of your families by thrift and husbandry, for so could Caine, not pullers of them downe by riot and unthriftinesse: say to thyselfe, How shall this first of all bad men rise up in judgement against mee, if I cannot frame my selfe at least to be as good as he was? A man should even blush to thinke what is the eldest sonne of the Divell more vertuous then I am, O how bad a man am I then.
Secondly, we must make some good use of that was bad in Cain, which is double. First, to take great heed to our selves to mortify those vices, and shun those sins which we find related of him. Cain was a very Hypocrite, a man that contented himself with the outward acts of Gods Worship, but was not Sanctified, did not frame his heart to please God and set himself to do well. O take heed to your selves that you be not such, but labour to present your hearts to God, and in all his services to offer your souls and bodies to him, and not alone the external service, seek in and by the duties of religion to be made new creatures. Join care of a good life in your whole conversation with your outward devotion, then you shall not be Hypocrites, but upright. Beware of Hypocrisy, find out it self and its ill effects, lament them, confess them, pray against them. Be afraid least you should prove Hypocrites, cry to God to keep you from being such, and to make you sincere. An Hypocrite is apt to run into all sin, nothing is accepted from him, he is apt to fall away into open profaneness, and to be quite cast of by God for his sins.