A15013:324
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If any demand. But why should the curse fall on Canaan for Chams fault?
I Answer, The Lord hath all the children of all wicked men so far obnoxious to his justice, that it cannot be a wrong in him to ⟨p. 87⟩punish the Father in the sons, or the sons in the Parents. So have we done with Ham.1
I Answer, The Lord hath all the children of all wicked men so farre obnoxious to his justice, that it cannot be a wrong in him to ⟨p. 87⟩punish the Father in the sonnes, or the sonnes in the Parents. So have we done with Cham.1
- 1Gen. 10.
The next bad man of whose badness the Holy Ghost takes notice is Nimrod. He was the fourth from Noah, 1and thus his genealogy riseth, Noah, Ham, Cush, Nimrod. His name signifieth we will rebel, or a rebel, whether by chance or otherwise given to him;2 of him this one thing alone is noted, that he began to be mighty in the earth,