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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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1First, in respect of God. When the Lord appeared unto him in a vision, vers. 3. and told him that he was but a dead man, meaning, was worthy of death, and so should certainly die unless he reformed himself, because the woman he had taken was another mans wife, he did defend his innocency before God, truly alleging, that he did no way suspect her to be a married woman, because both her self and Abraham said she was his sister, and would not be known of their being joined together in matrimony, which also the Lord confesseth to be true: Yet so soon as God had commanded him to restore the woman, backing his commandments with promises and threats, presently he obeys the Lord, and returneth the matron to her husband.
1First, in respect of God. When the Lord appeared unto him in a vision, vers. 3. and told him that he was but a dead man, meaning, was worthy of death, and so should certainely die unlesse he reformed himselfe, because the woman he had taken was another mans wife, he did defend his innocency before God, truely alledging, that he did no way suspect her to be a married woman, because both her selfe and Abraham said she was his sister, and would not be knowne of their being joyned together in matrimony, which also the Lord confesseth to be true: Yet so soone as God had commanded him to restore the woman, backing his commandements with promises and threats, presently he obeyes the Lord, and returneth the matron to her husband.
- 1His Virtues.His Vertues.
1It is a worthy virtue and a proof of integrity, speedily and readily to obey the word of God, and amend those sins which before we did not know, when once the Lord doth vouchsafe to make them known unto us. This proveth that the soul is uprightly desirous to avoid all sins, when it will instantly reform the fault once manifested. To linger and put of from time to time, and strive to make ones self blind, and to wink and not see the sin, or not address to a speedy reformation, that is a fruit of guilefulness, but to yield to God and ones conscience, and without further delays to leave of