A15013:1490
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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I pray you Virgins take warning by Dinah, be not you gadding abroad hither and thither, to see and be seen alone; Dinahs success may give you cause of fearing your selves in such occasions. But especially let me exhort you to teach your eyes more piety, than to bestow themselves in looking abroad to see fashions then, when you come to the house of God, there to do service unto God. Then I say, do not show your selves so disregardful of God, so very hypocrites, such persons as let their hearts wander (for that wanders if the eye wander) when the body approacheth him: When you should be marking what is read, or what is prayed, or what is sung, or what is preached. A wandering eye at Church is a very bad thing, and is the devils instrument to steal away all you hear, and to make you unprofitable hearers.
I pray you Virgins take warning by Dinah, be not you gadding abroad hither and thither, to see and bee seene alone; Dinahs successe may give you cause of fearing your selves in such occasions. But especially let me exhort you to teach your eyes more piety, than to bestow themselves in looking abroad to see fashions then, when you come to the house of God, there to doe service unto God. Then I say, doe not shew your selves so disregardfull of God, so very hypocrites, such persons as let their hearts wander (for that wanders if the eye wander) when the body approacheth him: When you should be marking what is read, or what is prayed, or what is sung, or what is preached. A wandring eye at Church is a very bad thing, and is the devils instrument to steale away all you heare, and to make you unprofitable hearers.
I fear that this is the truest cause why many of you learn just nothing, and cannot answer what you hear, your eye carried away your minds, that they could not attend by the ear, to what was spoken.
I feare that this is the truest cause why many of you learne just nothing, and cannot answer what you heare, your eye carried away your mindes, that they could not attend by the eare, to what was spoken.