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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
Example 12: THE TWELFTH EXAMPLE.Example 12: THE TVVELFTH EXAMPLE.
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shall I be less affable, bounteous, righteous to my brethren and neighbours, then a stranger of another nation and another religion was to Abraham who did but sojourn near him? We are ill Scholars in the School of our blessed Saviour, if we receive not better instructions from him, then can be found in an Heathen teacher; yea we Christians must practise the same virtues in a better manner, on better grounds and to better ends. We must be courteous, and for conscience sake, not barely for credit, to please God, not alone to win men, and to those that wrong us and deal frowardly with us, not alone to them that are courteous unto us. These virtues simply in themselves cannot entitle us to the name of members of Christ, unless we do them with reference to Gods Commandment and authority, but being so as it were dipped in true religion, they will become Seals of our faith and cause unto us an ample recompense.
shall I be lesse affable, bounteous, righteous to my brethren and neighbours, then a stranger of another nation and another religion was to Abraham who did but sojourne neere him? We are ill Schollers in the Schoole of our blessed Saviour, if we receive not better instructions from him, then can be found in an Heathen teacher; yea we Christians must practise the same vertues in a better manner, on better grounds and to better ends. We must be courteous, and for conscience sake, not barely for credit, to please God, not alone to winne men, and to those that wrong us and deale frowardly with us, not alone to them that are courteous unto us. These vertues simply in themselves cannot intitle us to the name of members of Christ, unlesse wee doe them with reference to Gods Commandement and authority, but being so as it were dipt in true religion, they will become Seales of our faith and cause unto us an ample recompence.
So I should have said of the former virtues commended in the three fore-named Brethren, of being friends to the righteous, not so much for righteousness sake as for other commendable parts, we see in them, or for the hope we may have to be advantaged by them. This will not approve a man to be a true Christian, but to love a righteous man in the name of a righteous, an Abraham because he is an Abraham, servant to the most high God, this is a due sign of one sanctified. But I have digressed and now return again to my Exhortation; I pray you out-strip the Heathen in all virtues and let your conversing amongst your neighbours be as fair and winning as that of theirs could be. So for these men.