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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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Brethren, God doth not please to speak to men now in person by dreams, but he revealeth his will by Pastors and Teachers, speaking in his Name. He hath employed me to you this thirty years well near, to inform you that you are but dead men, because of the sins you have gone a whoring after, and to threaten you with death if you refuse to leave them, and encourage you with promise of life. upon your converting and amending, O when will you hearken as this man did. I beseech you before you come to Church to hear, take sometime to beg of God the assistance of his Spirit, to make you obedient hearers, and then blessed be your ears that hear.
Bretheren, God doth not please to speake to men now in person by dreames, but hee revealeth his will by Pastors and Teachers, speaking in his Name. Hee hath imployed mee to you this thirty yeares well neere, to informe you that you are but dead men, because of the sinnes you have gone a whoring after, and to threaten you with death if you refuse to leave them, and encourage you with promise of life. upon your converting and amending, O when will you hearken as this man did. I beseech you before you come to Church to heare, take sometime to beg of God the assistance of his Spirit, to make you obedient hearers, and then blessed be your eares that heare.
1Another benefit afforded to this King Abimelech was this, that he found God as favourable to him as could be, in a speedy removing of the chastisement which was sent upon him because of Sarah, viz. the barrenness of all his family, for it is said, vers. ult. that God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his maids, and his hand-maids, and they conceived, for he had fast shut up every womb in the house of Abimelech, by which it may be thought, that God sent some gentle sickness upon him, by which he was disabled from coming near to Sarah: Now so soon as he did reform the fault, the Lord heard the prayer of Abraham, and cured him and his house. This is a great favour of God, to make hast to our deliverance, and very quickly to hear our own prayers, and the prayers of others made for us, and instantly to remove the miseries which did lie upon us; for if the long lying on of a cross be tedious and heavy, because of the much sorrow it bringeth, and many complaints it wringeth from the mouth even of good men, saying, Lord how long? then surely freedom from all that anguish must be received as a point of great grace. O my Brethren, do you imitate Abimelech in the speedy mending of your faults, that the Lord may also favour you so much as to remove your crosses quickly. If iniquity be in your heart, put it from you, and remove it out of your tabernacle,