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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
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.
THE FIFTEENTH EXAMPLE.
OF ISAAC.
Hitherto of Abraham and those that lived with him,1 now we come to Isaac the son of Abraham, not of his body so much as of his Faith, for he was the son of the promise, the son of the free woman, not of the bondwoman, which was borne as S Paul saith,2 not by the flesh, nor by a mere natural power, but by promise, by virtue of that gracious promise which God had made with him, for this was a word of promise at that time,3 I will come and Sarah shall have a son, and in Isaac shall thy seed be called, and we brethren (saith the Apostle) as Isaac are sons of promise. Now Isaac signifieth laughter, or, he hath laughed, or, shall laugh, a name given to him by God himself, upon occasion of his Fathers laughter when he heard the promise, not out of unbelief as Sarah once laughed, but out of the joy which he conceived from the assured hope which he had of the performance of the promise, and because God filled both Abraham and Sarah with gladness and laughter at his birth, when they were both old, and in course of nature were now past all possibility of having children.
HItherto of Abraham and those that lived with him,1