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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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1Now the last virtue of Noah is, that he built an Ark as God bad him, and furnished it with all food, and went into it at the time appointed, and received in with himself and family all manner of Beasts and Birds that could not live but on dry ground: two and two, male and female of the unclean that were not fit for food and Sacrifice, and 7. and 7. of those that were clean, that is fit for food and Sacrifice, at least for the last.
1Now the last vertue of Noah is, that he built an Arke as God bad him, and furnished it with all foode, and went into it at the time appointed, and received in with himselfe and family all manner of Beasts and Birds that could not live but on drie ground: two and two, male and female of the uncleane that were not fit for foode and Sacrifice, and 7. and 7. of those that were cleane, that is fit for foode and Sacrifice, at least for the last.
- 14. He built an Ark as God bad him.4. He built an Arke as God bad him.
Here is his faith which brought forth obedience to the word of God, in such things which seemed ridiculous to the world, and made him a laughing stock unto all the world almost: Noah forsooth the youngest of the Patriarchs, he will needs be thought to have better acquaintance with God, then either Enoch or Methuselah or Lamech or any of his Grandfathers that have lived or do live. None of them could see a flood coming, none of them had a fancy of the worlds being drowned, none of them bethought himself of making an Ark, but this fellow hath gotten some new revelation, and he is a building a huge thing like a Chest almost so long, &c. So you think the man is not in his right wits! Brethren you easily persuade your selves, that this good man was laden with these scoffs, and the like behind his back, and like also before his face, and to his very teeth. For wicked wits will never cease gybing at those good things that cross their sense and reason, Yet Noah obeyed, went on, built the Ark, that is, was obedient to God in a thing that made him ridiculous to the world. So will true Faith do, it will make a man obey the Lord in those actions by which he shall make himself a derision to all men almost, and more then a derision, a prey and spoil too. The Obedience of Faith is such an Obedience as will make all men to be at Gods beck in acts of that nature as will cause him to be blamed and despised of all the world, as we see in Abraham, in Moses, and in all those almost that are reckoned up in the 11. of the Heb. Because it makes a man firmly and steadfastly to apprehend greater good things and greater evil then those that are seen, and so those visible ones do not sway him and rule on him; for he that sees a greater danger or evil, will easily cast himself upon