A15013:819
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.
And now all you husbands profit by Isaacs example, and humbly pray to God to frame your hearts to the unfeigned love of your wives. This is the way to make you like comfortably and chastely, a man shall be happy if he enjoy what he loveth, and love what he must enjoy. They live with great peace in themselves, that for conscience sake to God have their souls knit unto their wives, but he, whose affections are disjoined and divorced from his wife, doth live in perpetual vexation, because he hath not subjected his affections to the commandment of God, and fixed his heart on her to whom God would have it united. And he that loveth not his wife honestly, is in perpetual danger to be caught with the unchaste love of another woman, therefore Solomon bids one, wander in the love of his own wife, 1for why saith he shouldst thou be taken with a strange woman.
And now all you husbands profit by Isaacs example, and humbly pray to God to frame your hearts to the unfaigned love of your wives. This is the way to make you like comfortably and chastly, a man shall be happy if he enjoy what he loveth, and love what he must enjoy. They live with great peace in themselves, that for conscience sake to God have their soules knit unto their wives, but hee, whose affections are disjoyned and divorced from his wife, doth live in perpetuall vexation, because he hath not subjected his affections to the commandement of God, and fixed his heart on her to whom God would have it united. And he that loveth not his wife honestly, is in perpetuall danger to bee caught with the unchast love of another woman, therfore Salomon bids one, wander in the love of his owne wife, 1for why saith hee shouldst thou be taken with a strange woman.
- 1Prov. 5.
This duty therefore is very requisite, and every good man must heartily cry to God to work in his heart this virtuous affection towards his wife, that love may make him able to perform all other duties, without which he must needs be defective in all other matrimonial offices.