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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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So you have Rebekkahs piety to God, now see her carriage to her husband, and we find in the Story of her life, testimonies of her being a dutiful wife unto him.
So you have Rebekkahs piety to God, now see her carriage to her husband, and we finde in the Story of her life, testimonies of her being a dutifull wife unto him.
1For first, when she found him inclined to go against the will of God (in giving away that solemn blessing which she inherited from his Father Abraham, unto the Son to whom it was not due, because God had preferred the younger before the elder) she was careful to prevent that sin, and to procure the blessing unto Jacob, to whom it was due, and how? Not by brawling and falling out with him, but by a gentle and a quiet means. I commend not the using of guile and falsehood, but in that she fell not to it by violence of speech, but by a gentle and mild way, in that I cannot but commend her. Herein she did the part of a loving, discreet, and dutiful wife, who reverenced her husband, and desires to keep him from sin. She came not chaffing to Isaac, as once Sarah did to Abraham, but by a gentle course she caused him to escape the fault before he could commit it, and beyond his purpose. So must you good wives carry your selves, if your husbands be about to swerve out of the way, and you perceive it, you must endeavour by sweet and dutiful courses to prevent, or recall them from sin, not to use fierce passion, brawling, as sometimes women of a fierce spirit do, who many times are punished for their indiscreet frowardness, by failing of their desires, and making things worse, rather then changing them for the better. The same disposition to her husband she showed in another passage too, for that she might procure the sending of Jacob into Padan Aram, she did not openly declare the matter to her husband, but came and related the trouble she had with Esau's wives, and told how bitter a thing it ⟨p. 7⟩would prove unto her, if she were as bad yoked with another wife that Jacob should bring, and so won him to dispatch Jacob for a wife into Padan Aram.