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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
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.
He was much against all such preaching as was light, vain, scenical, impertinent, raw and indigested.
Hee was much against all such preaching as was light, vaine, scenicall, impertinent, raw and indigested.
His preaching was plain, but as much according to the Scripture and also to the rules of Art, and of right Reason, as any that ever I heard or have heard of. In conference he hath told me what he aimed at, and what use he made of the Arts, and what rules he set to himself in the studying of his Sermons, which was as followeth,
His preaching was plaine, but as much according to the Scripture and also to the rules of Art, and of right Reason, as any that ever I heard or have heard of. In conference he hath told me what hee aimed at, and what use he made of the Arts, and what rules hee set to himselfe in the studying of his Sermons, which was as followeth,
That he might better understand his Text, he made use of his Grammar learning in Greek and Hebrew, in which tongues the Scripture is written. Also he would use the help of Rhetoric to discover to him what forms of speech in his Text was to be taken in their primary and proper signification, and what was elegantly clothed and wrapped up in tropes and figures that he might unfold them, and see their naked meaning: Then well weighing and considering the context, he would by the help of Logic find out the scope of the Holy Ghost in that Scripture. He would endeavour when he began to enter upon the preaching of any Chapter, to Analyse and take the Chapter into its several branches and parts. Then he would if it were a doctrinal Text, note the Doctrine as it lay in the Text and so prosecute it. Or if the Text consisted of illustrations or circumstances of some principal truth there prosecuted; he would then gather from some notable part or branch of his Text, an apt Doctrine, or Divine Truth