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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
Example 4: THE FOURTH EXAMPLE.Example 4: THE FOVRTH EXAMPLE.
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His faults are, 1.1 He corrupted the ordinance of marriage by taking two wives; God at first made but one man and one woman and joined them together, and Adam said, they shall be one flesh, signifying that he conceived it to be the will of God, that one woman should serve for one man, and adds, A man shall forsake Father and ⟨p. 42⟩Mother and cleave to his wife, not wives. But this man would not satisfy himself with Gods appointment, his lust (in all likelihood it was his lust, for what other cause should move him I cannot conjecture) would not be contained within the bounds of lawful matrimony. He dares add a second wife and so bring into the world a painted whoredom, a gilded adultery, a pretended marriage, but indeed a very breach of wedlock. For our Saviour Christ telleth us, that he which putteth away his wife and marrieth another commits adultery, and if that be true as we must confess,2 for his authority sake that spake it, then without all question he that keepeth his former wife still and will needs take another to her, is guilty too of committing adultery. The reason is clear and cannot be denied. For if it were not adultery to have more women then one at one time, then the taking of another wife upon a causeless divorce should not deserve that odious title, and if it be so, polygamy must needs take the same title to it self. This was therefore a grievous audaciousness in this wicked man, that he would leap over the poles as it were which God had fixed. The thing was naught, and his doing it first before others made it worse in him, and made him guilty of their faults that after followed it upon his example. For indeed it was quickly taken up and practised in the world, insomuch that it continued to the time of Abraham, and was practised also by him as a thing not reputed sinful. For when sin hath gotten years and examples upon its back it doth many times cease to be counted what it is, and goes under the repute of a lawful thing, though it be in it self even somewhat evidently unlawful; because partly the mind of man corrupted by the pleasing or profitable effects of it, is willing not to think it sin, and the judgement is easily swayed by the will, and partly because the example of men doth work too much to draw unto evil, as an heavy thing is easily cast downward.