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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, it is noted of her, that she reverenced her husband,1 which is also commanded to wives by S. Paul, saying, Let the wife see that she fear her husband. Lo it is earnestly charged upon women, they must look to it that they yield it: Let the wife, that is, every wife, see, that is, carefully look to it, and not make shifts or pretend excuses, but see, that she do it, even fear her husband.
Secondly, it is noted of her, that shee reverenced her husband,1 which is also commanded to wives by S. Paul, saying, Let the wife see that shee feare her husband. Loe it is earnestly charged upon women, they must looke to it that they yeeld it: Let the wife, that is, every wife, see, that is, carefully looke to it, and not make shifts or pretend excuses, but see, that shee doe it, even feare her husband.
- 13. She reverenced her husband.3. Shee reverenced her husband.
There is a double fear,1 one which maketh one tremble and fly from the thing feared as hurtful and mischievous, so as men do fear a Lyon or Bear, to run from him as fast as they can, that he may not tear us in pieces, such a fear as this is not required. Another fear is, fear of offending, wronging, or grieving the person feared, flying and shunning all such things as would displease him and make him conceive with dislike an irrespectivenesse of him. This is the fear of the wife, not to dare to displease her husband or anger him, not so much least he should fly upon her with reproofs and blows, as least she should be an instrument of grief to one, whom she loveth and honoureth by her undutifulness and rudeness. And it must be noted that she did so reverence him as to call him Lord. And how did she call him Lord? not in speaking to him, or in speaking of him before others, by whom it might be told him again what she had said, but when she thought of him or spake of him with the inward speech of her heart, which none could relate again, but God who hath related this to her praise. For that title she gave him even in her inward cogitations, when she said in her self at the hearing of the Angels promise, that she should have a son,