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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.
1The Method I intend to take in each person is this, I will consider his Birth, Life and Death, and in his Life I will look to his carriage and behaviour in respect of the deeds he did, good, bad, indifferent and doubtful, and the things that befell him, either prosperously or adversely, in benefits or afflictions.
1The Method I intend to take in each person is this, I will consider his Birth, Life and Death, and in his Life I will looke to his carriage and behaviour in respect of the deeds he did, good, bad, indifferent and doubtfull, and the things that befell him, either prosperously or adversely, in benefits or afflictions.
- 1The Method observed in handling all the Examples.
Now for Adam and Eve because they were the first fountains of mankind, and therefore could not be borne in the same manner as others be (for he that is borne must have a Parent, and he that hath a Parent was not the first man or woman, because his Parent was before him) therefore I cannot tell you any thing of their Birth,1 but of their entering into the world by another way, which was to them the same in effect, that our begetting and birth is to us. I will inform you according to the Scriptures, for it much concerns us to understand our original and to know certainly how mankind came into the world. Know then in sum, That God made Man of the dust of the earth, 2and breathed into him the breath of life and man became a living soul. Here is in brief the Creation of Adam (now Adam signifieth red Earth,3 because his body was made of such kind of Earth) and concerning Woman it is noted that God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,