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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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Now consider we the benefits God had bestowed upon them before their fall, the making of them after his own Image, in knowledge, righteousness and true holiness, with a most beautiful, ⟨p. 7⟩strong, swift, healthy and comely body, free from all danger of sickness, death, or other misery; giving them dominion over all creatures, planting so excellent a place for them as Paradise, and granting them the use of all the trees, and that of life, and putting on them so pleasant a service as that of dressing and keeping the Garden, besides the hope and assurance of Eternal life upon condition of their obedience, of which Paradise it self and the tree of life were signs unto them. For if we should live the life of glory by obeying the Law, so should they have done seeing they also were under the same Covenant of works that we be under.
Now consider we the benefits God had bestowed upon them before their fall, the making of them after his owne Image, in knowledge, righteousnesse and true holinesse, with a most beautifull, ⟨p. 7⟩strong, swift, healthie and comely body, free from all danger of sicknesse, death, or other misery; giving them dominion over all creatures, planting so excellent a place for them as Paradise, and granting them the use of all the trees, and that of life, and putting on them so pleasant a service as that of dressing and keeping the Garden, besides the hope and assurance of Eternall life upon condition of their obedience, of which Paradise it selfe and the tree of life were signes unto them. For if wee should live the life of glory by obeying the Law, so should they have done seeing they also were under the same Covenant of workes that we be under.
Now after their sin God bestowed divers benefits on them.1 The chief was the promise of a Saviour, viz. The seed of the Woman to tread on the Serpents head, that is, to destroy the Devil, and the works of the Devil, and to deliver them from the mischief which Satan sought to bring upon them. By which words he did make the Covenant of grace with them and their Posterity, providing a remedy equal to the disease, and the means of revealing it to all, in that be manifested it to them that they might teach it to their children, and so one to another till all knew it, and then making them Breeches and continuing their life, and granting them children. These be the benefits.