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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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The Scripture also tells us certainly that it is an immortal substance which must return to God that gave it,1 and reason subscribes to this truth, because finding the soul a thing simple, it cannot conceive how it should be corrupted; O how ignorant are we and what cause have we to be puffed up with conceit of our knowledge, seeing so much blindness doth now possess our minds, that in a manner all we have to say of our own souls and spirits, the best part of us, is this, that we cannot tell what to say.
The Scripture also tells us certainely that it is an immortall substance which must returne to God that gave it,1 and reason subscribes to this truth, because finding the soule a thing simple, it cannot conceive how it should be corrupted; O how ignorant are we and what cause have we to be puffed up with conceit of our knowledge, seeing so much blindnesse doth now possesse our mindes, that in a manner all we have to say of our owne soules and spirits, the best part of us, is this, that we cannot tell what to say.
- 1It is hard to understand the nature of the soul.It is hard to understand the nature of the soule.
As for Eve she also consisted of a body,1 and that was made not of earth, but of a bone of her husband, to instruct her and him both of their duty, that she should acknowledge her subjection unto ⟨p. 4⟩him as being taken out of him, and helpful to him as being made of a rib an helpful bone in his side, and to instruct him that he should account her dear unto him and make precious reckoning of her, using her as in a manner his equal, as being a piece of himself and extracted from his own side. Now a woman also hath a soul, an immortal spirit to make her a living and a reasonable creature; for where sin is found there is a reasonable soul, because none other is capable of knowing and consequently transgressing a law made by God, but woman was in the Transgression, that is, she sinned, and sinned first before Adam,