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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 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.
But a worse crosse or as bad befell him after,1 for at last the Lord made him to divorce Hagar, and to send her quite away, never againe to live with him. This was as bad and worse then to burie her. If God do even separate a mans wife from him, either his affection to her is little, or else his griefe for her will be much, but hee had Sarah his first wife, and that served to mitigate the putting away of his superadded woeman.
- 19. He was made to divorce Hagar and send her quite away.9. Hee was made to divorce Hagar and send her quite away.
So you see his domesticall afflictions in his wife, now consider what he suffered in his children, 1. In Ishmael whom he had first, ⟨p. 134⟩he was fain to banish him,1 or excommunicate him whether you will, or both, this was an hard thing to him, he had but two sons and now he must thrust one out of his family for ought that he knew, never to see him again. He must adventure him to the wide world, and send him abroad with his mother, in all probability of reason to starve or beg he knew not whether. Would it not grieve and trouble any of you? to send a pretty youth about a dozen or ten years old out of his house, without any thing but a bag and a bottle, not knowing what he would do, or whether he must go: yet God tried Abraham thus, he must learn to trust Gods word without means and above hope. The promise was, that God would make him a great man, and now God began to perform promise, by seeming to make him a beggar; If God seem to threaten us with beggary in our posterity, we must consider, that such a cross seemed to be rushing upon Abraham, but God found means to make that son great, to whom he was not suffered to give any thing, that it might be made evident, that it is easy with God to enrich a man cast out and destitute of all friends.