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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.
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Another aggravation of their wickedness,1 is from the persons that committed it, not one vile fellow, or three or four companions in villainy, consented together to act such a hideous part, but all the men of the city, old and young, all from every quarter assembled together, by which it is manifest, that the City was universally corrupted, and that there was not a civill honest man left amongst them, ⟨p. 218⟩but all were turned abominable buggerers, and did take pleasure either to act that filthiness themselves or to see it acted by others. It is a fearful thing, when such grievous crimes grow common, when all commit them or like of them, none reproveth, none opposeth them, but every one makes another worse then he would be, and no man will think that wicked, which is done by each man in the town or country, as well as by himself. Men follow sin amain, when they swim down the stream of example unto it; they make themselves bold to do what all do, and can hardly make themselves believe they offend in going with the heard as it it were, O let us resist the overgrowing of sin, the overspreading of all, that it be not as a spreading fretting leprosy: Seldom is it, that hideous sins grow common, but that some common vengeance followeth, and yet you see the nature even of the worst sins to be such, that they will spread themselves by little and become universal diseases, and when every man hath them, none knows how to be ashamed of them, or careth to cure them.
Another aggravation of their wickednesse,1 is from the persons that committed it, not one vile fellow, or three or foure companions in villany, consented together to act such a hideous part, but all the men of the city, ould and young, all from every quarter assembled together, by which it is manifest, that the City was universally corrupted, and that there was not a civill honest man left amongst them, ⟨p. 218⟩but all were turned abhominable buggerers, and did take pleasure either to act that filthinesse themselves or to see it acted by others. It is a fearefull thing, when such grievous crimes grow common, when all commit them or like of them, none reproveth, none opposeth them, but every one makes another worse then he would be, and no man will thinke that wicked, which is done by each man in the towne or countrey, as well as by himselfe. Men follow sinne amaine, when they swimme downe the streame of example unto it; they make themselves bold to doe what all doe, and can hardly make themselves beleeve they offend in going with the heard as it it were, O let us resist the overgrowing of sinne, the overspreading of all, that it be not as a spreading fretting leprosie: Seldome is it, that hideous sinnes grow common, but that some common vengeance followeth, and yet you see the nature even of the worst sinnes to be such, that they will spread themselves by little and become universall diseases, and when every man hath them, none knowes how to be ashamed of them, or careth to cure them.