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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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Maidens let me propound Dinahs example to you, and warn you to take heed of being desirous to go abroad to see fashions.
Maidens let me propound Dinahs example to you, and warne you to take heed of being desirous to goe abroad to see fashions.
But a second thing is, a young man saw her, and took her,1 and lay with her, and humbled her; you see what hurt followed here; She went to see the daughters, but one of the sons saw her, and worse than that, lusted after her, and took her, and abused her body, whether by solicitation and enticement, or by force and strength, or whether by a mixture of both, partly striving, and partly soliciting, I cannot say, the words are such as may carry the sense of soliciting, as well as of ravishing: but we are willing to take things at the best for poor Dinah, and because the Scripture useth these phrases to describe a Rape, Deut. 22.28, 29. calling it a humbling her, as here; we will in charity think, that the same misery befell her in the City: for it was the Kings son, who might easily bring her to such a room in an house as might cause that her crying voice might not be heard, or she might be loath to cry, knowing what he was, and that she was a stranger. But if it were so, I am fearful that her more light carriage than was fit, gave occasion to the young man of such fancies, and emboldened him to offer such a kind of violence as he thought would not be resisted.
But a second thing is, a young man saw her, and tooke her,1 and lay with her, and humbled her; you see what hurt followed here; Shee went to see the daughters, but one of the sons saw her, and worse than that, lusted after her, and tooke her, and abused her body, whether by solicitation and enticement, or by force and strength, or whether by a mixture of both, partly striving, and partly soliciting, I cannot say, the words are such as may carry the sence of soliciting, as well as of ravishing: but we are willing to take things at the best for poore Dinah, and because the Scripture useth these phrases to describe a Rape,