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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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1But now his next sin is, and Ham the Father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his Father. If he had suddenly and occasionally come into the place where Noah lay uncovered, and his eyes before he was aware, had lighted on that object, and he had presently turned away his countenance from it with grief for his old Parents fault, and out of tender compassion, that seeing had been no sin. But the meaning is, he gave himself to stand and gaze upon his Fathers ⟨p. 83⟩unbeseeming carriage and unseemly parts, so as to delight in it, and thereby to stir up and nourish in himself a contempt and slight esteem of his Father. He did not see it with pity and remorse, and make the best of it as of a matter of infirmity, into which the good old man fell unawares: but he beheld it with gladness, laughter, derision, jesting, sporting at his Fathers nakedness and misdemeanour. This is a great fault to behold the sins and offences chiefly of Parents and other superiors, and most of all of godly and holy men. Fathers of the Church and of Religion as well as of our persons, I say, to behold their faults with an over-open and a greedy eye, with scorn and scoffs and contempt of them and of piety, and of goodness in and thorough them. For this certainly comes from nothing else, but a secret dislike and averseness from goodness it self, against which we are glad to pick a quarrel, and are willing to have somewhat to object against it, that we may hinder our selves from embracing it, and from a gladness also to have somewhat to allege in excuse of our own naughtiness, and for the emboldening of our selves to persist in it still without fear. It is nothing but hypocrisy, I mean a being contented with a false counterfeit goodness, yea willingness to favour and allow our selves in our own sins, that maketh us with joy and delight in our selves and scorn and contempt against them, to gaze upon the faults and ill carriages of the godly men with whom we live, which is also so much the more aggravated, if the reverence which we owe them in regard of their places, and love in regard of their nearness to our selves, have not been able to withdraw us from such injuriousness.
1But now his next sinne is, and Ham the Father of Canaan saw the nakednesse of his Father. If he had suddenly and occasionally come into the place where Noah lay uncovered, and his eyes before he was aware, had lighted on that object, and he had presently turned away his countenance from it with griefe for his old Parents fault, and out of tender compassion, that seeing had beene no sinne. But the meaning is, he gave himselfe to stand and gaze upon his Fathers