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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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Again, bless God heartily for preserving you from envy, from murder, from hypocrisy, from muttering, from despair, from open profaneness, from mere and prevailing worldliness. For we have the same nature that Cain, the same corruptions, full of pride, full of hypocrisy, full of ignorance of God, and apt to be bold to any evil if we may conceal it from men. We who have the self-same bad nature, if God have preserved us from so mighty prevailing and breaking forth of corruption, let us not lift up our selves above others, but give the glory to God, and be satisfied with the comfort, not daring to take the praise unto our selves, each one of us in his kind would be as bad as Cain, if God had in like manner left us unto our corruptions and the temptations. O that we could be humbly thankful for our preservation from such soul sins and crimes.
Againe, blesse God heartily for preserving you from envie, from murder, from hypocrisie, from muttering, from despaire, from open profanenesse, from meere and prevailing worldlinesse. For wee have the same nature that Caine, the same corruptions, full of pride, full of hypocrisie, full of ignorance of God, and apt to be bold to any evill if wee may conceale it from men. Wee who have the selfe-same bad nature, if God have preserved us from so mighty prevailing and breaking forth of corruption, let us not lift up our selves above others, but give the glory to God, and be satisfied with the comfort, not daring to take the praise unto our selves, each one of us in his kinde would be as bad as Caine, if God had in like manner left us unto our corruptions and the temptations. O that wee could be humbly thankefull for our preservation from such soule sinnes and crimes.
Now let us remember Cain's miseries and crosses, and let us affright our selves from sins by them. Think, would I have God make me a fugitive and a runagate, fill mine ears with the voice of terror, and make a dreadful sound possess mine heart always, curse the things I take in hand for my sake, as he did the earth for Cain's sake, deliver me up to gross sins, to hardness and utter profaneness, to impenitency and despair, and a mere forsaking of God and Apostasy; then let me not be an Hypocrite, let me not mock God with shows, let me not sleight reproofs not caring to amend. Let me not hide my sins and allow my self to do evil in secret, fearing mans eyes more then Gods. Let me not mutter against his Justice, let me not