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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.
There are divers reasons to prove this fault to be a great sin. §1First, it is a crossing of that end which God had in making man; he made him to be useful and profitable as the members of the body, idleness makes him unprofitable; he gave him a mind and a body, fit for useful and laborious employments, he spends this strength to no purpose. So he doth even thwart Gods intention in creating all things, and himself among the rest, for all were made for labour in some fruitful matter, as we see the Sun and heavenly bodies, the waters and trees, and all the creatures.
There are divers reasons to prove this fault to be a great sinne. §1First, it is a crossing of that end which God had in making man; hee made him to be usefull and profitable as the members of the body, idlenesse makes him unprofitable; hee gave him a minde and a body, fit for usefull and laborious imployments, he spends this strength to no purpose. So he doth even thwart Gods intention in creating all things, and himselfe among the rest, for all were made for labour in some fruitfull matter, as we see the Sunn and heavenly bodies, the waters and trees, and all the creatures.
Secondly, he depriveth himself of all right in conscience to food ⟨p. 233⟩and other necessaries, and maketh himself a thief in all he eateth and drinketh, and spendeth, for this cause S. Paul saith,1 he that will not work let him not eat, so he is interdicted the use of Gods creatures, as it were a man banished out of the world. A civill right in the courts of justice he hath to the possessing of things, because of his title to them and interest in them, but a conscionable right to the use of them he hath not,2 therefore Paul wisheth men to labour and eat their own bread, intimating that it is not their own in the court of conscience before God if they gain not an interest to it by pains.