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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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Let us therefore beware of false gods and false religions, and let us beware of walking after a false rule even in following the true God, that is, of serving him, not because we have any true and certain knowledge of him in our own minds, but only because we have been so taught of our Fathers, and see the whole world where we live to take the same course, for he that is thus blindly led, worships God but by chance as it were, and is as ready for a false god as for a true, and this was Abraham's fault before his calling.
Let us therefore beware of false gods and false religions, and let us beware of walking after a false rule even in following the true God, that is, of serving him, not because wee have any true and certaine knowledge of him in our owne mindes, but onely because we have beene so taught of our Fathers, and see the whole world where we live to take the same course, for he that is thus blindly led, worships God but by chance as it were, and is as ready for a false god as for a true, and this was Abrahams fault before his calling.
Now after his calling, he fell into some sins,1 though not wilfully nor presumptuously, but of weakness and of infirmity. The first fault was weakness of faith. Though he was the Father of the faithful, and is commended in Scripture for the strength of his faith, and that he wavered not nor staggered at the promise of God through unbelief, yet at the first, his faith was mixed with unbelief, and showed it self to have some feebleness in it. For first, when he went down into Egypt because of the famine, and saw that the men were wicked and feared not God, he was in doubt, least the men of the place would kill him for his wives sake. God had promised him before that time to give the land of Canaan to him and to his seed after him, and yet he had no seed, therefore as yet he could not be put to death, unless the promise of God should fail him and come to nothing. Notwithstanding the promise which should have been frustrated, if himself had died without issue, he doubted least he might be slain by them, as being distempered and diverted by fear from considering and taking diligent notice of the promise. This was a manifest imperfection of faith you see. Wherefore let us take notice that in the faithfullest of Gods people there will be defects of faith, as also there was want of it in David, when he said, I shall one day fall by the hand of Saul, and in Moses,