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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
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OF Adam and Eve.
AS all other knowledges are conveniently taught by Precepts and Examples;1 so is that best of knowledges, the art of living holily. Hence it is that as I have instructed you to my poor ability in the Law and the precepts of good life, so I do now intend to set before your eyes the Examples recorded in Scripture of Men, both good and bad, that by observing the swervings of the one, and the right walking of others, you may better keep your own feet in the straitest paths. Only concerning Examples, you must know this thing in general; that no Example at all hath the force of a precept either to bind the consciences of men to any thing as a duty, or to restrain from any thing as a sin:2 because the knowledge of sin is from the Law, and where there is no Law there is no transgression, and our care must be to walk in Gods ways, not in the ways of any man whatsoever. But Example prevaileth alone to persuade the will as a fit argument of Exhortation or Dehortation, not as an argument to prove a thing needful or sinful. Seeing then my ⟨p. 2⟩duty is to persuade you to all goodness, and to dissuade you from all evil, and the Examples of Scripture are undoubted and certain, and they offer themselves as it were unto the senses, and so more work on the will to allure or debtor: I think it a convenient means of helping you in all righteousness and against the contrary, to make a collection of those Examples of good or bad things which are left us upon record by a divine pen, and I will range these Examples according to the order of time wherein they lived, so far as I can inform my self thereof by the Word of God. And I will begin with Adam and Eve, and put them both together, because their good and evil was put together in practise thereof.
AS all other knowledges are conveniently taught by Precepts and Examples;1