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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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I answer, God be thanked in some things it is not, and in public the faults break not out that there were done openly, but many of the sons of Sodom are bare-faced amongst us, and we look upon them without remorse. You must be sorry that you have not been more sorry for the public iniquity. Surely if a scourge come it shall take you away with the rest, because you have not showed your zeal of Gods glory and detestation of sin in the rebellions of the rest.
I answer, God be thanked in some things it is not, and in publike the faults breake not out that there were done openly, but many of the sonnes of Sodome are bare-fac'd amongst us, and wee looke upon them without remorse. You must be sorry that you have not beene more sorry for the publike iniquity. Surely if a scourge come it shall take you away with the rest, because you have not shewed your zeale of Gods glory and detestation of sinne in the rebellions of the rest.
And now set you to it, set you to it, it is said, that Lot did put his soul upon the rack, he was an actor in this sorrow, he put himself upon it. I say he was even willing to exercise himself in grieving for their naughtiness, and he strove to make his sorrow piercing. O you must labour to do this as well as any other good work, to chafe and grudge and be furious against such a sinner and such a sinner, to jest, scoff, and gird, or rail, and bitterly inveigh against such and such sins, be such strains and flashes of wit and anger, as may be found in men of no true holiness, but to get alone and even sell over himself to sighing, mourning, and lamentation for the common sins that are every where run into, this can hardly be ascribed to any thing but true piety, if the sins be such as do not in any particular respect touch a mans self in way of wrong and injury. Indeed to grieve for such sins of others, may seem in some respect as a more difficult thing, so a more sure sign of truth then to grieve for ones own sins, you shall see men driven to tears for their own offences in respect of shame or loss, and sometimes terror of heart, ⟨p. 174⟩but grieving for the common sins can hardly proceed from any thing but charity to them as they be men, and hatred against sin as it is sin. If a mere friend of our own have offended, we are so tender of his reproach, because it is somewhat linked with our own, that many men can blubber for it exceedingly. O let us love the Common-wealth so well and the state of mankind, as to yield some of our sorrow to quicken us in prayer against their sins.