A15013:1477
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.
1Issachar the fifth son, signifying there is a reward for giving her maid to her husband, but in this she was much mistaken, God is not wont to give rewards for our bad deeds, and though it was of ignorance, yet it was a sin in her to give her maid to her husband; therefore we must take heed of imitating her in conceiting that God is well pleased with our faults. Such is the blindness of our minds, that we are apt to run into such errors.
1Issachar the fifth sonne, signifying there is a reward for giving her maide to her husband, but in this she was much mistaken, God is not wont to give rewards for our bad deeds, and though it was of ignorance, yet it was a sin in her to give her maid to her husband; therefore we must take heed of imitating her in conceiting that God is well pleased with our faults. Such is the blindnesse of our mindes, that we are apt to run into such errours.
- 1Gen. 30.18. Issachar, what it signifies.
1The last son was Zebulun, signifying dwelling, because God had given her so goodly a dowry as six sons, she now begins to hope not alone that her husband will love her more, but so much now, as to afford her more of his company, and dwell with her, which it seems before he accustomed not to do, but with Rachel. For love is never satisfied unless it enjoy the presence and company of the person loved; these are Leahs sins, envy at her maid, Rachel so far plaid the foolish woman, that she gave her handmaiden Bilhah to be her husbands Concubine, and she had two sons, which Rachel would needs take as her own, rather than those that her own sister brought forth, and the first she called Dan, 2