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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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Pray to God to preserve you from unnaturalness, and if any of you have trampled these natural bonds under feet; let him address himself to most hearty lamentation, or else the God of nature will sharply punish the slighting of natural bonds. It is a diabolical fury of sin that causeth a man to break asunder these bonds of brass and iron.
Pray to God to preserve you from unnaturallnesse, and if any of you have trampled these naturall bonds under feet; let him addresse himselfe to most hearty lamentation, or else the God of nature will sharpely punish the sleighting of naturall bonds. It is a diabolicall fury of sinne that causeth a man to breake asunder these bonds of brasse and iron.
But yet as bad or worse then this,1 they lied and cozened their old Father to make him believe, that Joseph was killed by a wild beast, as the Story shows, Gen. 37.31. Indeed Reuben was not consenting to the selling of Joseph, but it may seem that he was willing to hold his peace, and to conceal their fact, which he thought could neither be prevented nor redressed by revealing, and it may well be that they did not acquaint him with their selling of Joseph. But lo they all agree to colour their sin to their Father and bring him into such a conceit as filled his heart with extremity of anguish: Evil children they were that would cover their fault by telling such a lie unto their Father as they needed not to have told; for their sin would not have been the more revealed, if they had said nothing then to counterfeit such a thing, and Jacobs griefs perhaps would not have been so great if there had remained any hope of his sons life. But it is like that they were ⟨p. 134⟩desirous to put him into a conceit of Joseph death, for fear least hope of his life might put him upon such an enquiry as might find him out again, and so discover their lewdness, for an ill conscience is always full of fear and suspicion, and will conjecture such ways of discovery as no man else can dream of.