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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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And lastly, let every man prepare for this cross, think of it, tell himself, it may befall him, and resolve if the wisdom of God shall bring it upon him, that he will labour patiently to undergo it, not so as to be sorrowless, that were no way commendable, but so as to be moderate in grieving, and to turn his grief into spiritual grief, and pour it forth before the Lord in humble and penitent confessions and lamentations for sin.
And lastly, let every man prepare for this crosse, think of it, tell himselfe, it may befall him, and resolve if the wisedome of God shall bring it upon him, that he will labour patiently to undergoe it, not so as to be sorrowlesse, that were no way commendable, but so as to be moderate in grieving, and to turne his griefe into spirituall griefe, and powre it forth before the Lord in humble and penitent confessions and lamentations for sinne.
Before I depart from handling of Hagars Example, I must say something of Sarah and her, which I knew not how so fitly to speak of in the life of either, viz. that these two Mothers and the children borne of them were Allegories, as S. Paul calls them, that is, figures of some other thing mystically signified by them. For this we have the authority of S. Paul, 1Gal. 4.21. In these words, Hear you not what the Law (that is, the writings of Moses commonly called the Law, because the Law was the principal part thereof) doth say, for it is written that Abraham had two sons, 2one of the bond-woman another of the free-woman, and the son of the bond-man was borne after the flesh that is, by a bare natural power of generation, as any man naturally may beget a child of a woman without any power above nature concurring to the work,3 But she that was borne of the free-woman was borne by promise, that is, not so much by any natural strength of the Parents, as by virtue of Gods promise, which bound his truth to set his Omnipotency a work above nature, otherwise Abraham that had so long lived with Sarah in her youth, and could never become a Father by her should much less have been so by her,