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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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Now there is a righteousness of the Law and of the Gospel.1 A righteous man by the Law we shall find none in all the world, for S. Paul telleth us, that by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified before God, and that there is none righteous, no not one, and Job saith of himself in this sense, that if he went to justify himself, his own clothes would defile him. This righteousness standeth in an exact conformity to the Law of God in that a man hath not committed, neither is prone and inclined to commit any of the things which the Law doth forbid, nor hath not omitted nor is not prone to omit any of the things which the Law doth command, but is utterly free from all sin of omission and commission, and hath perfectly fulfilled the Law in all points and degrees. Such a righteousness since Adams fall was never found, but in our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.2 Therefore the Apostle saith, If righteousness were by the Law Christ were dead in vain, he meaneth, that if God appointed us now to come to Heaven for Christs sake, upon condition of our perfect fulfilling the Law, it would be to no purpose, for we should not be saved by his death; and after he saith, that the Law concludeth all under sin, 3that the promise through the faith of Jesus Christ may be given to them that believe; and before he had said,4 If there had been a Law given which could have given life, righteousness had been by the Law, so that there was not a Law given that could give life, and therefore the Psalmist confesseth, that in Gods sight there is no flesh righteous, 5and S. Paul durst not stand to this righteousness which was his own by the Law. This Legal righteousness it would justify if we had it, but we have it not, for we lost it in our first Parents, in whom all sinned and all died, all were made sinful and mortal creatures, and a sinful mortal creature cannot possibly perform such a Law, as was given to a sinless and immortal creature. Therefore we must find out another righteousness by which some men may be called righteous, and by which Abel was righteous, seeing that by this righteousness the Scripture testifieth, that neither he nor any other can be made righteous.