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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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Secondly, When she was now great by him, she ran away from him and Sarah, and carried the fruit of his body away with her. This no doubt grieved Abraham, he took her alone for desire of of-spring, not to satisfy lustful desires, and now when she promised seed, and his heart was raised up with expectation of a son, to have all his hopes dashed by the quarrels that Sarah had with her, she being gone away, and he knowing not where to have her, nor how to procure her return, nor what was become of her, nor of his child wherewith she went, and which was dear unto him, even now before he saw it in the world. This surely put him to much grief and sorrow. This cross is not very usual, to have a great bellied wife run from a man, but if such a kind of desertion shall befall any, either he must be very respectless of his wife, or else it would be a corrosive unto him.
Secondly, When shee was now great by him, she ran away from him and Sarah, and carried the fruite of his body away with her. This no doubt grieved Abraham, he tooke her alone for desire of of-spring, not to satisfie lustfull desires, and now when she promised seede, and his heart was raised up with expectation of a sonne, to have all his hopes dashed by the quarrels that Sarah had with her, she being gone away, and hee knowing not where to have her, nor how to procure her returne, nor what was become of her, nor of his child wherewith she went, and which was deare unto him, even now before he saw it in the world. This surely put him to much griefe and sorrow. This crosse is not very usuall, to have a great bellied wife runne from a man, but if such a kind of desertion shall befall any, either hee must be very respectlesse of his wife, or else it would be a corrasive unto him.
But a worse cross or as bad befell him after,1 for at last the Lord made him to divorce Hagar, and to send her quite away, never again to live with him. This was as bad and worse then to bury her. If God do even separate a mans wife from him, either his affection to her is little, or else his grief for her will be much, but he had Sarah his first wife, and that served to mitigate the putting away of his superadded woman.