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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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But secondly, Noah is commended for his faith.1 By faith Noah (saith the Author to the Hebrews) did, &c. you must all labour to get this same faith. This is the grace of graces commended in Abel, in Enoch before named, and now in Noah, without which we cannot possibly please God.
But secondly, Noah is commended for his faith.1 By faith Noah (saith the Author to the Hebrewes) did, &c. you must all labour to get this same faith. This is the grace of graces commended in Abel, in Henoch before named, and now in Noah, without which we cannot possibly please God.
- 12. Had faith Heb. 11.7.
But what is this faith you will ask me?
But what is this faith you will aske mee?
I answer, I will show the nature of faith unto you:1 It is that grace by which a man assents to all that God speaketh for the authority sake of the speaker. This is the nature of faith in general. Under it is comprehended that which is called justifying faith, being an assent to the Promises of the Gospel, or of the new Covenant upon the same ground. This assent is double, first general to the word generally spoken, and particular to a particular conclusion duly deducted thence concerning ones self. And whosoever doth truly assent to the general, must needs assent to every particular concluded under the general, because the contradiction of an universal proposition is made by a particular contrary to it, and the general is accounted false if it may be denied or be denied of any particular, for Example, if I say all the twelve Apostles were godly men, and another say one of them as Judas, was not a godly man, though a eleven were good, yet because this one was not so, he hath showed that proposition to be false. Now then, mark that faith yields a double assent: First, to the thing generally spoken: Secondly, to the particular conclusion contained therein and thence deduced, and this assent must be grounded upon the bare authority of God the speaker in respect of his perfect and infallible truth, because it judgeth him faithful, therefore it esteems his words true, not because it can see reason for things in his own discourse and understanding. This is faith, for example, God said to Noah there shall be a flood to drown all the world, there was no reason to think it should be so,