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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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This was the first cross of Abraham, leaving his country, see next what he met with in Canaan another country, in respect of his estate and the persons that were dearest to him.
This was the first crosse of Abraham, leaving his countrey, see next what he met with in Canaan another countrey, in respect of his estate and the persons that were dearest to him.
1First for his estate, God gave him no possession, no not the breadth of a foot, but made him travail up and down in tents, without either certain house or any inheritance. This is a cross too, and a thing little pleasing to flesh and blood, to be of a fleeting condition, not knowing where he shall dwell next month or next year, to be without house or home, that he can call his own; by which God taught Abraham, to use the world as though he used it not, and to set his heart more upon the things above, because he had so little settledness in the things below. The people of God must be content to be rolled as it were up and down from place to place, to be in the Earth as in a Sea, in which they shall be tossed now hither now thither, and have no fixed dwelling almost, and our Lord Christ after he was a Preacher, was accustomed to such a kind of Pilgrims life, now in Judea, now in Galilee, now in Caesarea, now in Cana, now in Decapolis, he had not an house to lay his head in. S. Paul was likewise accustomed amongst other miseries, to bear this, of having no certain dwelling place. If God call any of us to such a condition, it must not seem much to us, to eat the bread of such worthy men, nor to pledge them in the same cup. He whose soul is not glued to the world, can well endure this kind of tumbling, none other will, unless he be a man that loves to wander.
1First for his estate, God gave him no possession, no not the bredth of a foote, but made him travaile up and downe in tents, without either certaine house or any inheritance. This is a crosse too, and a thing little pleasing to flesh and bloud, to be of a fleeting condition, not knowing where he shall dwell next month or next yeare, to be without house or home, that he can call his owne; by which God taught Abraham, to use the world as though he used it not, and to set his heart more upon the things above, because he had so little setlednesse in the things below. The people of God must be content to be rowled as it were up and downe from place to place, to be in the Earth as in a Sea, in which they shall be tossed now hither now thither, and have no fixed dwelling almost, and our Lord Christ after he was a Preacher, was accustomed to such a kind of Pilgrims life, now in Iudea, now in Galilee, now in Caesarea, now in Cana, now in Decapolis, hee had not an house to lay his head in. S. Paul was likewise accustomed amongst other miseries, to beare this, of having no certaine dwelling place. If God call any of us to such a condition, it must not seeme much to us, to eate the bread of such worthy men, nor to pledge them in the same cup. Hee whose soule is not glewed to the world, can well endure this kind of tumbling, none other will, unlesse hee be a man that loves to wander.