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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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But a second evil that I had almost forgotten pinched Abraham in Lot, for Lot lost all in Sodom and went and dwelt in the Mount, and there lay with his two daughters, and begat of each of them a son. This was no doubt noised abroad, it came to Abraham's ears, and filled his heart with a great deal of grief, that such a man as he had taken Lot to be and found him to be, after God had afflicted and chastened him, and also showed him mercy and delivered him, should run into so monstrous and unnatural sins, as to commit incest, not with one of his daughters which had been far too much, but even with both of them, one after the other. This I say pierced Abraham's soul to think of, he could not but be sensible of all the bitter reproachful taunts that the true religion of God would suffer for this crime of Lot. The sins and crimes of those that are dear to us, and the reproach that follows thence, both upon themselves and sometimes upon the truth of God which they profess, must needs breed much heaviness unto good men, and sometimes the providence of God so disposeth of things, that the people of God shall be humbled so, as Paul saith God would humble him he feared, when he ⟨p. 132⟩should find many impenitent sinners in Corinth, and it had brought anguish to his heart, that the incestuous man had not alone so shamefully offended, but also been tolerated by the Church, as no doubt also the hear-say of Rubens incest was a great vexation of heart to Jacob, when the report of it was brought unto him.
But a second evill that I had almost forgotten pinched Abraham in Lot, for Lot lost all in Sodome and went and dwelt in the Mount, and there lay with his two daughters, and begat of each of them a sonne. This was no doubt noised abroad, it came to Abrahams eares, and filled his heart with a great deale of griefe, that such a man as he had taken Lot to be and found him to be, after God had afflicted and chastened him, and also shewed him mercy and delivered him, should runne into so monstrous and unnaturall sinnes, as to commit incest, not with one of his daughters which had beene farre too much, but even with both of them, one after the other. This I say pierced Abrahams soule to thinke of, he could not but be sensible of all the bitter reproachfull taunts that the true religion of God would suffer for this crime of Lot. The sinnes and crimes of those that are deare to us, and the reproach that followes thence, both upon themselves and sometimes upon the truth of God which they professe, must needs breede much heavinesse unto good men, and sometimes the providence of God so disposeth of things, that the people of God shall be humbled so, as Paul saith God would humble him he feared, when he