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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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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,4 now when her body was quite dried with age, which things (saith S. Paul) are an Allegory, according as I told you before. For these are Testaments or Covenants, the one from Mount Sinai, which came thence being there published and promulgated, it is the Law, the Covenant of works, whereof it is said, The Law came by Moses, and this is said to gender unto bondage, that is, to beget and make not sons and daughters of a free and ingenuous spirit, loving God, and out of love doing him service, and merely of his grace, love, free favour and promise expecting their reward, but bond-slaves which out of a fear of punishment or hope of reward, do service and expect the reward for the worthiness sake of their works,5 and this Covenant is Hagar, meaning, is signified by Hagar, for saith he, this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, meaning is so by signification and representation, and answereth in signification and Type to Jerusalem, which now is and is in bondage, meaning to the Law and to the curse and rigour of it, being debtors to the whole Law to do it, or if they do it not to the curse to suffer it.