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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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Another fault of Lots is,1 that he did offer his two daughters to the Sodomites, saying. Do to them what seemeth good in your eyes. Out of a desire to save his guests from villainy he prostitutes those that should have been dearer to him then any guests: and so would redeem the strangers from wrong with the hazard of his children's chastity. He is to be somewhat excused by the present occasion, in that hurry and distemper he had not leisure to consider well of the thing he did, but through hast was pushed forward to do so great an hurt unto the two maids. He doth evil here that good may come of it, a thing that S. Paul would never allow, for he saith concerning it, God forbid. The doing of evil is simply sinful,2 the suffering of evil not so, wherefore a man should resolve rather to be a patient in the greatest evil then an agent in the far lesser. In doing any evil a man doth disobey God and transgresseth his Law, in suffering it he doth alone receive misery to himself: now the greatest misery is not so great an evil as the least sin. It behooveth us to take heed that our carnal reason do never so over-sway us, no not on the sudden, that we should consent to act any evil for the procuring of any good. And if we have done otherwise, we are to impute it to our selves as a great weakness,3 and so to confess it and humble our selves for it before God.
Another fault of Lots is,1 that he did offer his two daughters to the Sodomites, saying. Doe to them what seemeth good in your eyes. Out of a desire to save his guests from villany he prostitutes those that should have beene dearer to him then any guests: and so would redeeme the strangers from wrong with the hazard of his childrens chastity. He is to be somewhat excused by the present occasion, in that hurrie and distemper he had not leasure to consider well of the thing he did, but through hast was pushed forward to doe so great an hurt unto the two maides. Hee doth evill here that good may come of it, a thing that S. Paul would never allow, for he saith concerning it, God forbid. The doing of evill is simply sinfull,2