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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.
I pray you every one, set your consciences a work to find out your own sinfulness in this kind; Do not many of your hands refuse to labour? Are you not such as will not work? Some are idle, because they have been so ill educated, that they have not fitted themselves for any calling, they have nothing to do nor cannot tell how to bestow themselves and their times. These are a kind of vagrant people, though they have means enough to live of, cyphers, good for nothing, but to eat and drink, vermin, Apes, Monkeys, whose whole life is to eat and drink and sleep and sport, and sit and talk and laugh and be merry. These are excrements in humane societies, and the most miserable of the sons of men, as having brought upon themselves by long use an habit of being idlesbees, and a kind of necessity to continue naughty; yet such a necessity as doth not excuse but aggravate the fault: others again are idle, because though they have a calling, yet they have no mind to follow it, but are estranged from the works of their vocation, and love to be gadding and rambling hither and thither, and every where, but where they should be. These are great offenders, this idleness turns their food into poison, many such slothful do-naughts there are in the world. There be some servants sluggish, slow-backs, whose hand is no sooner from under the Governors eye, but that it is also off from the work, and they leave all and sit down to talk by the fire-side, or in a corner being men of tongue, and further then eye-service drives them to it, their chief employment is twattle.
I pray you every one, set your consciences a worke to finde out your owne sinnefullnesse in this kinde; Doe not many of your hands refuse to labour? Are you not such as will not worke? Some are idle, because they have beene so ill educated, that they have not fitted themselves for any calling, they have nothing to doe nor cannot tell how to bestow themselves and their times. These are a kinde of vagrant people, though they have meanes enough to live of, cyphers, good for nothing, but to eate and drinke, vermine, Apes, Monkies, whose whole life is to eate and drinke and sleepe and sport, and sit and talke and laugh and be merry. These are excrements in humane societies, and the most miserable of the sonnes of men, as having brought upon themselves by long use an habit of being idlesbees, and a kind of necessity to continue naughty; yet such a necessity as doth not excuse but aggravate the fault: others againe are idle, because though they have a calling, yet they have no minde to follow it, but are estranged from the workes of their vocation, and love to be gadding and rambling hither and thither, and every where, but where they should be. These are great offendors, this idlenesse turnes their foode into poyson, many such sloathfull doe-naughts there are in the world. There be some servants sluggish, slow-backs, whose hand is no sooner from under the Governours eye, but that it is also off from the worke, and they leave all and sit downe to talke by the fire-side, or in a corner being men of tongue, and further then eye-service drives them to it, their chiefe imployment is twattle.