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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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You see Abraham's carriage to his wife, now I come to show you his carriage to his two sons. 1. He loved them both very well,1 as is evident by his praying for Ishmael, and his taking the matter heavily, when Sarah would have him cast out of doors, but yet he loved neither of them so well, but that he could be content to have the one cast out of his house, and the other burnt for a Sacrifice, and to cut off both their foreskins.
You see Abrahams carriage to his wife, now I come to shew you his carriage to his two sonnes. 1. He loved them both very well,1 as is evident by his praying for Ishmael, and his taking the matter heavily, when Sarah would have him cast out of doores, but yet he loved neither of them so well, but that he could be content to have the one cast out of his house, and the other burnt for a Sacrifice, and to cut off both their foreskinnes.
- 14. He loved his two sons very well.4. He loved his two sonnes very well.
So Parents must learn to love their children, but with a moderate love, such as that they can be be content to put them to smart, so far as God will have them put to smart, even by just correction to cut off the foreskin of their hearts, yea to part with them, if God will have them banished, or go into another Country, yea to have them die if God will have them die. Such a moderate love which is subordinate to the love of God, we must have and exercise to the fruit of our bodies, and we must show the sincerity of our ⟨p. 102⟩love to them by praying for them, and the moderateness or our love by being able to punish them duly, and to part with them even by death when God shall send it. O bewail your carnallnesse and unlovingness, and immoderate love to them. Inordinate love of a child is a great fault, it will undo the child, it will make him despise and abuse the Parents, it will nourish all vices in him, it is the next way to make God cross a man in him, it makes a child an Idol, pray to God therefore to moderate your love.