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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 14: THE FOURTEENTH EXAMPLE.Example 14: THE FOVRTEENTH EXAMPLE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1The next is, that when the Lord did scourge them by the hand of Amraphel and his confederates, so that they lost the day, and many of them their lives, and the rest their liberties and their goods, and after delivered them again by the valour of Abraham, they were not any whit amended by this chastisement, but their wickedness continued still to make the same out-cry and shrill clamour in the ears of God, as he told Abraham before. It is a great wickedness, not to profit by corrections;2 He that hardeneth his heart being often reproved, much more corrected, shall surely fall into mischief. God complains of Israel, 3why should ye be smitten any more? and again, thy children would receive no correction. It is a great provocation to a man against his inferiors,4 if he have punished them for any offence, and cannot find them one whit amended. Incorrigibleness increaseth wrath in all superiors. For, first it is a frustration of their hopes ⟨p. 215⟩and labours, and that is tedious. Secondly, it is a proof that the offender is utterly hardened in an evil course, and that doth stop the way against all further proceeding of clemency, and makes justice arm it self with vengeance, when mercy would be but abused if it should show it self. Be warned therefore to compare your own selves with these Sodomites, and judge betwixt the Lord and your selves, if you also have not profited naught by his corrections.
1The next is, that when the Lord did scourge them by the hand of Amraphel and his confederates, so that they lost the day, and many of them their lives, and the rest their liberties and their goods, and after delivered them againe by the valour of Abraham, they were not any whit amended by this chastisement, but their wickednesse continued still to make the same out-cry and shrill clamour in the eares of God, as he told Abraham before. It is a great wickednesse, not to profit by corrections;2