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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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A great fault it is in a wife, to forget that her husband and she do make but one body, and to divide him from her in eating and drinking to whom she is so nearly linked in other society. Be no more offenders in this kind, if you have been such, but now be good nurses to your husbands, and let them at least partake with your selves of any good fare which you provide for your selves. These be the things commendable in Rebekah. Now I come to her faults.
A great fault it is in a wife, to forget that her husband and she do make but one body, and to divide him from her in eating and drinking to whom she is so nearly linked in other society. Be no more offenders in this kinde, if you have been such, but now be good nurses to your husbands, and let them at least partake with your selves of any good fare which you provide for your selves. These be the things commendable in Rebekkah. Now I come to her faults.
1First, she used deceit and fraud to convey the blessing unto Jacob, and sought rather to hook it to him by a fleshly device, then to compass it by a convenient and lawful way. You shall read the Story Gen. 27.1. and 17. She knew her husband was blind, therefore she spake to Jacob to get the blessing by a cunning device, she sends for a Kid, makes such a dish as was pleasing to Isaacs palate, uses means to make his hands and neck seem rough, like unto Esau's, by covering them with the skins of the Kids as handsomely as she could, and so sends him in to Isaac, having before emboldened him to say, though falsely, that he was Esau the eldest Son. This was a sin in her, the matter of it was fraud and falsehood, the aggravations of it were, first, she drew Jacob into the sin of lying and shifting, even contrary to his own temper, for the Scripture witnesseth of him, that He was a plain man.
1First, she used deceit and fraud to conveigh the blessing unto Iacob, and sought rather to hooke it to him by a fleshly device, then to compasse it by a convenient and lawfull way. You shall reade the Story