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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
Example 17: THE SEVENTEENTH EXAMPLE.Example 17: THE SEVENTENTH EXAMPLE.
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.
If you say, how was this a part of Isaacs blessing to Esau, if it were a sin?
If you say, how was this a part of Isaacs blessing to Esau, if it were a sinne?
I answer; Isaacs meaning is, to relate what outward prosperity Esau should have: so that he doth not justify all the means he should use to make himself great, but alone shows, that he should be great, and obtain a gallant country. It is a kind of temporal blessing to overthrow in war, and to conquer, though one deal not justly in that matter of war. Indeed if men may live by their sword, where is the rule of equity, Do you as you would be done by; where is the following after peace? which all are commanded to follow with all. Where is that threat, or curse become? Which David pronounceth from God by way of just imprecation against such, Scatter the people that delight in war: Such kind of war as is enterprized to make a living of, and to get away other mens possessions; for else to fight Gods battles, as Joshua and David did, in pursuing them with the sword which were Gods enemies, and whom he appointed to be so pursued, is a good thing and honourable; and such as those worthy men before named did much delight in. So then to make wars and stirs, by invading others, and picking and ready accepting any occasion of quarrel for the raising of a Monarchy or Principality to himself, is a sin, and, so far as I see it, was Esau's sin, who by his sword made himself owner of such a Country, as within a little time his posterity was raised to a great Kingdom; for he dispossessed ⟨p. 24⟩the inhabitants of Mount Seir, and erected the beginning of the kingdom of Edom. Indeed, to live by ones sword, or by his wits, may well dispute for the precedency in sinfulness. The one cozens, the other kills, the one useth secret tricks, the other open force. The one armeth it self with fraud, the other with violence. The one hurts men in goods, the other in life too; the one will have it because he can over-reach you in wit, the other because he can over-master you in strength; the one careth not so he can beguile you, whether he have just title or no, the other careth not so he can beat you, whether his title be good or not; the one breaketh the eighth and ninth Commandments, the other the eighth and sixth Commandments: never a better of them, but that the worse, which is joined with more cruelty and bloodiness.