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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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Concerning this Creation of Man, you must first inform your selves of the necessity of it.1 It must needs be granted by force of reason, that there must be some first man, seeing otherwise there must be infinite men,2 because a number without beginning must be also without end, in as much as there is the same reason of both, that which caused men without beginning, did cause them necessarily, and therefore it must cause them for ever; now all reason agrees to this truth,3 that there cannot be an infinite number, seeing to a number still one at least may be added. I mean it of actual numbers and actual infiniteness, so we reason thus, either an infinite number of men, or some first man and woman, not the former, therefore the latter. And if there must be a first man and woman, either they came by chance and without any maker, which is so absurd, that no ⟨p. 3⟩man can choose but hiss it out, or else they were made by some agent or matter that had a being before them; and if so, then either as Heathen Theology tells, they grew out of the mud as frogs do in some Countries, or else were formed by God as our Theology teacheth, and let every man that hath his right wits about him, judge in himself whether of these twain is more agreeable to reason, and more likely to be true. So man was created by God,4 now about his Creation, the time and matter of it is to be noted. For first man was not created till the sixth day when a fit place for him to dwell in, and all necessary furniture for the place, and all needful servants and attendants were before provided for his use. God saw it not fit to bring man into the world, before it was garnished and stored with all contents useful for him. And then man was made in the first place and woman after him, to show that man is the superior in nature, woman was made for man and not man for woman, therefore was man made first and woman after, and so doth the Apostle reason in two places where he handles the difference of Sexes, 1 Cor. 11.8, 9.