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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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For estates give him adversity, he is sullen, dogged, impatient, cannot stoop to it: blames every body for it and cares not what shifts he useth to get out. Give him prosperity, he abuseth it and doth mischief with it, at least doth no good with it but makes it an instrument of serving his pride and other lusts, so that he is good for nothing in any place, he can stoop to no burden, nor buckle to no service, being just like a gouty leg, well neither lying still nor stirring, or a sick body neither well a bed nor up.
For estates give him adversity, he is sullen, dogged, impatient, cannot stoope to it: blames every body for it and cares not what shifts he useth to get out. Give him prosperity, he abuseth it and doth mischiefe with it, at least doth no good with it but makes it an instrument of serving his pride and other lusts, so that hee is good for nothing in any place, he can stoope to no burden, nor buckle to no service, being just like a goutie legg, well neither lying still nor stirring, or a sicke body neither well a bed nor up.
For qualities, the good qualities of others he knows how to vitiate, traduce, calumniate and make them seem vices, and will have somewhat to say to blemish them. For bad qualities he makes them worse then they be, aggravates them by mis-relating, and turns them into a jest and laughter, scorning rather then pitying him in whom he thinks they be, as the Pharisee did the Publican. His own ill qualities, he will not see, he will not confess, he will not mend, but hides them, excuses them, defends them, and many times boasteth in them. His good qualities he mars and corrupts, and doth so lift himself up for them, that most times they be even troublesome to others and reproachful to himself, he knows them so too well and makes so too much of them, that no man else can find any commendableness in them, they be but matter for bragging and boasting and telling gay tales of himself, what he hath done or can do; so it makes his vices worse, and turns his virtues even into vices. Can that be other then a most hateful and filthy vice that bringeth forth so many bad effects? and yet all these and many more that I cannot reckon up, do most apparently follow from pride in what degree it self is suffered to prevail in men.