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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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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 ⟨image 9⟩which should so immediately follow, that the Truth observed in the Text should be the argument or middle term, whereby in a simple Syllogism, he could conclude his Doctrine. Next, he would seek for apt proofs out of Scripture to confirm it. Fewer or more as he thought best, which done, because other arguments according to Scripture and right Reason are forcible to convince and confirm reasonable men in any truth, he would find out Reasons of his Doctrine, but he aimed that they should be strong Arguments, or middle terms by which he might likewise Syllogistically conclude his said Doctrine.
That he might better understand his Text, hee made use of his Grammer learning in Greeke and Hebrew, in which tongues the Scripture is written. Also hee would use the helpe of Rhetoricke to discover to him what formes of speech in his Text was to be taken in their primary and proper signification, and what was elegantly cloathed and wrapped up in tropes and figures that hee might unfold them, and see their naked meaning: Then well weighing and considering the context, hee would by the helpe of Logicke finde out the scope of the Holy Ghost in that Scripture. Hee would endeavour when he began to enter upon the preaching of any Chapter, to Analise and take the Chapter into its severall branches and parts. Then he would if it were a doctrinall 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 principall truth there prosecuted; hee would then gather from some notable part or branch of his Text, an apt Doctrine, or Divine Truth