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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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I go on to set before you a troupe of sinners all at once, whereof I conceive that Nimrod was the ringleader, for it was done at Babylon his City which he built, and which he had constituted the head and Metropolitan City of his dominion. The fault you have set down, Gen. 11.2, 3, 4. viz. 1that passing through the country Eastward from the place where Noah lived, and meeting with a very fruitful plain in the land of Shinar, that is, of Chaldea, 2they consulted to make bricks (for that the country afforded not hewne stone,) and to use a kind of natural mortar or slime that abounded in that place in steed ⟨p. 88⟩of artificial mortar, and so to build a City and a Town that should reach up to Heaven, moved thereto partly out of an ambitious desire of a great name and credit to continue long afterwards, and to spread far and near for the present, to prevent dispersion, which their guilty consciences caused them to fear, though no such thing was yet begun to be executed upon them. Here we must inform you of their sin, which was not simply the building of a City, nor building of it of such matter, but ambition and vain glory, and carnal confidence, and then the punishment of their sin in the dividing of their tongues, and scattering them abroad.
I goe on to set before you a troupe of sinners all at once, whereof I conceive that Nimrod was the ringleader, for it was done at Babylon his City which he built, and which he had constituted the head and Metrapolitan City of his dominion. The fault you have set downe, Gen. 11.2, 3, 4. viz. 1that passing through the countrey Eastward from the place where Noah lived, and meeting with a very fruitfull plaine in the land of Shinar, that is, of Chaldea, 2they consulted to make brickes (for that the countrey afforded not hewne stone,) and to use a kind of naturall mortar or slime that abounded in that place in steed