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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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We have done with the goodness of God to Ham in suffering him to live in the Ark. Now follow his sins.
We have done with the goodnesse of God to Cham in suffering him to live in the Arke. Now follow his sins.
1The first sin which we gather from that which succeeded is this, that he was an Hypocrite, one that contented himself with a bare outward show of goodness, and did not labour for the power of it to humble him, to discover his secret faults to him, and to heal his soul by bringing the Image of God, even the divine nature to him which was also the sin of Cain before, and after too of Esau and of Judas, and Ahithophel, and many others. Take you heed of this Brethren, take you heed of this. Beware that you be not Hypocrites, satisfied with some external show of religiousness joined with civill conversation of life, freedom from gross sins, and orderly living to the world-ward, but seek after the soul-spirit of godliness, which consists in finding out and reforming the corruption of your natures, and the secret disorders of your inward man. He that so prayeth and heareth, that these ordinances make him see and be humbled in the sight of the filthy quagmire of sin that is within him, by which he is carried from God to himself, and to sin, and the world for his own sake, and labours to have his inside more and more cleansed and reformed, and drawn up to God and the things of God, this man is a true Christian. But he that satisfies himself in an outward form of holy duties and of civill honest conversation, not diving to the depth of his heart, this man may prove, and if he mend not will prove a guileful Ham at last.
1The first sinne which we gather from that which succeeded is this, that he was an Hypocrite, one that contented himselfe with a bare outward shew of goodnesse, and did not labour for the power of it to humble him, to discover his secret faults to him, and to heale his soule by bringing the Image of God, even the divine nature to him which was also the sinne of Caine before, and after too of Esau and of Iudas, and Achitophel, and many others. Take you heed of this Brethren, take you heed of this. Beware that you be not Hypocrites, satisfied with some externall shew of religiousnesse joyned with civill conversation of life, freedome from grosse sinnes, and orderly living to the world-ward, but seeke after the soule-spirit of godlinesse, which consists in finding out and reforming the corruption of your natures, and the secret disorders of your inward man. He that so prayeth and heareth, that these ordinances make him see and be humbled in the sight of the filthie quagmire of sinne that is within him, by which he is carried from God to himselfe, and to sinne, and the world for his owne sake, and labours to have his inside more and more cleansed and reformed, and drawne up to God and the things of God, this man is a true Christian. But he that satisfies himselfe in an outward forme of holy duties and of civill honest conversation, not diving to the depth of his heart, this man may proove, and if he mend not will proove a guilefull Cham at last.