A15013:1643
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
Example 24: THE TWENTY FOURTH EXAMPLE.Example 24: THE TWENTY FOVRTH EXAMPLE.
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O how indulgent are Parents to their children's crimes, scarce with a word will they check them, at most but with a word for that which deserveth many blows, yea the stroke of death. This indulgence of theirs often makes children bold to sin, as in Adoniah and Absalom is seen, and so doth make them at length correctors of their Parents, that should have corrected them. Let Parents take heed to themselves, that they show not themselves to love God less then their children, by loving their children so much as to put out or smother the hatred of sin; and let Parents at last learn to make natural affection give place to justice.
O how indulgent are Parents to their childrens crimes, scarce with a word will they checke them, at most but with a word for that which deserveth many blowes, yea the stroake of death. This indulgence of theirs often makes children bold to sinne, as in Adoniah and Absalom is seene, and so doth make them at length correctors of their Parents, that should have corrected them. Let Parents take heed to themselves, that they shew not themselves to love God lesse then their children, by loving their children so much as to put out or smother the hatred of sinne; and let Parents at last learne to make naturall affection give place to justice.
You have his faults, his virtues are, 1. To his Son,1 he is willing to satisfy him in point of marriage so far as was fit, and so should all wise Parents be. If the affections of their children carry them not to matches too inconvenient, they should gratify them for fear of those mischiefs which often come by crossing them, and that because nothing is more likely to procure the welfare ⟨p. 160⟩of children, then when they be matched to whom they love; Unless their folly be such as to make too too foolish choices, let Parents learn to show themselves mild and gentle here if in any other thing.
You have his faults, his vertues are, 1. To his Sonne,