A15013:1711
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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And now be taught to use your memory virtuously to remember those that are in distress and under injuries, and those that have suffered with you, and those that have been instruments of comfort to you in the common sorrows that befell both. Memory cannot be better exercised next after the remembrance of God and his benefits and our sins, then in remembering the miseries of others, with whom once our own selves were joined in the same misery, and the kindnesses we have received of them in our miseries. And so much of the faults of these men.
And now be taught to use your memory vertuously to remember those that are indistresse and under injuries, and those that have suffered with you, and those that have beene instruments of comfort to you in the common sorrowes that befell both. Memory cannot be better exercised next after the remembrance of God and his benefits and our sinnes, then in remembring the miseries of others, with whom once our own selves were joyned in the same misery, and the kindnesses we have received of them in our miseries. And so much of the faults of these men.
1Now of their crosses, they both were imprisoned, and sure imprisonment is a cross. To be limited to one chamber, to be denied the common benefits that brute creatures enjoy, drawing in the fresh air, and a free beholding of Heaven and Earth, to want the benefit of ones friends company, and be so restrained, that neither he can go to them ⟨p. 175⟩nor they can come to him, to have one wall, one chimney,2 one window for his prospect, and either none or but a few and those disconsolate persons as himself to talk withal, this is a cross I say so tedious, as none can judge of it but by experience, yet many persons both of high place and of great virtues have suffered it.