A15013:787
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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Consider your selves therefore Brethren, whether you also have this same virtue of Faith in your hearts, believing all that God speaketh to you because he speaketh it, and specially all his promises, and by name, that principal promise of grace and salvation by Christ, for without this Faith you cannot be the children of God. If you have it not, you are strangers from God and from the covenant of grace. If you have it, you are his sons and daughters, justified before him, and accepted in his sight, through him the Beloved in whom the Father is well pleased. And therefore labour to get it, and to grow in it more and more, that it may exceedingly abound in you, as S. Paul saith it did in the Thessalonians. But beware you deceive not your selves in a bare conceit of Faith, saying you believe, when indeed you do not so, but let your Faith be a working Faith, approving it self by love and by obedience, that so you may indeed be the children of Abraham, and children of promise as Isaac was, and If you can thus approve your Faith, then rejoice in it above all things, knowing that you are rich in Faith, though you want all outward things, for he that hath Faith hath God to be his, and that is sufficient to make him happy in the absence of all other things.
Consider your selves therefore Bretheren, whether you also have this same vertue of Faith in your hearts, beleeving all that God speaketh to you because he speaketh it, and specially all his promises, and by name, that principall promise of grace and salvation by Christ, for without this Faith you cannot be the children of God. If you have it not, you are strangers from God and from the covenant of grace. If you have it, you are his sonnes and daughters, justified before him, and accepted in his sight, through him the Beloved in whom the Father is well pleased. And therefore labour to get it, and to grow in it more and more, that it may exceedingly abound in you, as S. Paul saith it did in the Thessalonians. But beware you deceive not your selves in a bare conceite of Faith, saying you beleeve, when indeed you doe not so, but let your Faith be a working Faith, approoving it selfe by love and by obedience, that so you may indeed be the children of Abraham, and children of promise as Isaac was, and If you can thus approove your Faith, then rejoyce in it above all things, knowing that you are rich in Faith, though you want all outward things, for he that hath Faith hath God to bee his, and that is sufficient to make him happy in the absence of all other things.