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A15013	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.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.; Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.; Scudder, Henry, d. 1659?	1640 (1640)	STC 25317.5; ESTC S4965	513,587	514

and of all that die in the Faith of our Lord Jesus to whom bee ascribed all Might Majestie Dominion and Glorie both now and for ever more Amen This Man of God and faithfull Minister of Christ departed this life upon Friday the 10. of May Anno Domini 1639. neare the end of the six and fiftieth yeare of his age Feb. 25. 1639. Imprimatur THOMAS WYKES Banburies Funerall teares powred forth upon the Death of her late pious and painefull Pastour Mr. William Whately deciphered in this Sympathizing Elogy I am that Orbin which of late did shine An heav'n enlightned starre with raies divine Which did arise within mee and dispence Light life heate Heav'n-infusing influence And went before me steering right mine Eye Vnto the very place where CHRIST did lye He was a Cynosura in my motion To Heaven's bright haven on this worlds vast Ocean Or as the Aegyptian Pharos to descrie The rockes of sinne and errour to mine Eye Hee was my Glorie Beautie Consolation My very soule I but the Corporation I would goe on with bleedings to recite His and mine owne sad fall but I can't write Throbs shake mine hand and griefe my sight destroyes And when I speake ah teares doe drowne my voice Yet will I sigh and give my sorrowes pent Within my breast by mournefull breathings vent Come then speake sighs write teares and sadly storie The dark Ecclipse that hath befell my glorie My Starre is falne and Heavens did so dispose That there he fell where he at first arose The Starres above us thus their races runne Returning thither whence they first begunne But did I say hee 's fallen Stay me there He is translated to an higher spheare Where though to th' world he is obscur'd he may Shine forth unvailed in a purer ray Fixt to an endlesse rest in heavens bright throne Above all starry Constellation But ah alas Death hath dispos'd it so That his rise prooves my fall his weale my woe His weale my woe strange what a change is this My welfare was but now in wrapt in his But thus Death innovates and did he not Tell me that he Commission hath got And warrant for his fact from heavens great King I would have brought him into questioning Ah death what hast thou done Dost thou not care To make a breach which ages can't repaire So rare a Frame in peeces for to take VVhich Heav'n and nature did combine to make A Master-peece For who did ere behold So sound a spirit in so strong a mold Heaven's treasure which within his breast abode VVas by his liberall tongue disperst abroad All Graces gave a meeting in him even To make his breast a little map of Heav'n His lips distilled Manna and he stood Not so for Church-goods as the Churches good His voice it was a trump whose sound was made VVith breath divine which it from Heaven had His life a dayly Sermon which alas Methinkes was measur'd by too short a glasse Ah Death though Painters give thee holes for eyes Yet thou canst see to take the richest prize To hit the fairest mark yet I suspect It was my sinne which did thine hand direct My light had I improov'd it well for gaine VVould have remaind els lights sha'nt burn in vain Yet sure he is not dead for why I find Him still surviving in my breast enshrin'd And who can say that he 's of life bereaven That lives in 's works inpious hearts in Heaven He 's but a sleepe by death undrest not dead Or hath but changd his dresse for he in stead Of these sin-staind ragges of mortality VVeares a pure robe whose length's eternity M. B. EXAMPLE I. OF Adam and Eve AS all other knowledges are conveniently taught by Precepts and Examples so is that best of knowledges the art of living holily Hence it is that as I have instructed you to my poore ability in the Law and the precepts of good life so I doe now intend to set before your eyes the Examples recorded in Scripture of Men both good and bad that by observing the swervings of the one and the right walking of others you may better keepe your owne feete in the streightest paths Onely concerning Examples you must know this thing in generall that no Example at all hath the force of a precept either to binde the consciences of men to any thing as a duty or to restraine from any thing as a sinne because the knowledge of sinne is from the Law and where there is no Law there is no transgression and our care must be to walke in Gods waies not in the waies of any man whatsoever But Example prevaileth alone to perswade the will as a fit argument of Exhortation or Dehortation not as an argument to proove a thing needfull or sinfull Seeing then my duty is to perswade you to all goodnesse and to disswade you from all evill and the Examples of Scripture are undoubted and certaine and they offer themselves as it were unto the sences and so more worke on the will to allure or deterre I thinke it a convenient meanes of helping you in all righteousnesse and against the contrary to make a collection of those Examples of good or bad things which are left us upon record by a divine pen and I will range these Examples according to the order of time wherein they lived so farre as I can informe my selfe thereof by the Word of God And I will begin with Adam and Eve and put them both together because their good and evill was put togeher in practise thereof The Method I intend to take in each person is this I will consider his Birth Life and Death and in his Life I will looke to his carriage and behaviour in respect of the deeds he did good bad indifferent and doubtfull and the things that befell him either prosperously or adversely in benefits or afflictions Now for Adam and Eve because they were the first fountaines of mankind and therefore could not be borne in the same manner as others be for he that is borne must have a Parent and he that hath a Parent was not the first man or woman because his Parent was before him therefore I cannot tell you any thing of their Birth but of their entring into the world by another way which was to them the same in effect that our begetting and birth is to us I will informe you according to the Scriptures for it much concernes us to understand our originall and to know certainely how mankinde came into the world Know then in summe That God made Man of the dust of the earth and breathed into him the breath of life and man became a living soule Here is in briefe the Creation of Adam now Adam signifieth red Earth because his body was made of such kinde of Earth and concerning Woman it is noted that God caused a deepe sleepe to fall upon Adam and then tooke one of his ribbes

worke at all or else will not work for your Families but your lusts to spend it on them I pray you at length be ashamed of such worse than brutish distemper of minde and more than beast-like misdemeanour what account can you give to God when he shall call you to an account Where was your naturall affection to your owne bodies and bowels where was your dutifull obedience to the Law of God and Nature and the Lawes of well ordered Common wealths where were your wits and your consciences and where be they that you live more sinfully and scandalously than the ignorant Goe home I beseech you with shame and sorrow in your hearts and countenances be not hardened against this reproofe after so many former reproofes but fall downe before God condemning your selves to the pit of Hell for such your unthriftinesse and confessing your owne extreme slavery to sinne and unfitnesse to mend that or any other fault beseech the living God to reforme you by his Spirit and to pardon you by the bloud of his Sonne and even beleeve his promise that he will grant your prayers and heale your Soules and forgive your sinnes for his Sonnes sake and so in Faith to his promises and Obedience to his Commandements set about the reformation of this and other faults and cease not praying repenting striving and you shall prevaile unthriftinesse will prove a disease of exceeding difficult care but not uncurable and you whom God hath pleased to make good and provident and thrifty husbands blesse him for it indeed and withall pray him to order you so in labouring for your families that it may shew it selfe to be a good Floure growing up as a Fruit of Gods Spirit not as a Weed springing up from a corrupt though restrained Nature by going into excesse making you so eager in providing for your houses as that you become niggardly unjust or otherwise excessive For the worldly minded man though hee live in better reputation on Earth hath no better reputation in Heaven than the waste-good nor shall have lesse torment in Hell seeing the worldly minded are enemies to God as well as the sensuall minded So Iacob provided for his family Now hee prayes for them as you see hee did when Isaac came against him Save me for I feare lest he come and strike the Mother with the Children Parents must blesse their children and in this sence also the whole families and cry to God for prosperity and peace If the Apostles bee bidden to pronounce peace surely then wee must pray for it If S. Paul prayed for the houshold of Onesiphorus were it not a wonder that Onesiphorus should not pray for his owne houshold You Governours shew your selves religious as well as thrifty call upon God for the people committed to your charge If publque supplications must be made for all men surely then even man must privatly pray for them that are his owne Be not prophane content not your selves alone to labour and toyle for your families but visit the Throne of Grace in their behalfe and call earnestly upon God to save them chiefly from sinne and wickednesse Further Iacob purged his family as you have it Gen 35.2 to the requiring them to put away the false gods and to bee cleane and change their garments and then having received of them all their idolatrous and superstitious trinkets hee buried them under the Oake mentioned there O that all Parents would be carefull to clense all vices out of their houses as well as Idolatry and this as well as other vices But Parents are most times too too carelesse of their families and see and winke at their sinnes their undecent behaviour ryot idlenesse disguised attire and any naughtinesse that doth not bring forth great discredit in the World Purifie your houses and so see the faults as to chase them out and call your people to amendment to cleannesse to changing their garments if they be proud vaine foolish as well as if they be superstitious Lastly Iacob instructed his people here and called them to the worship of the true God telling them that he would goe to Bethel and make an Altar to God that had fulfilled his vow and met him when he fled from Esau Wee should all call upon our families and bring them to Gods Worship and labour to instruct them therein that they may be able to performe it holily and fruitfully Surely had not Iacob taught his people what Duty they did owe to God in these sacrifices and how to performe them in spirituall manner he must have endeavoured onely to make them hypocriticall abusers of Gods service So much for Iacobs regard to his whole family Now see how he shewed himselfe in particular to his Wives and Ghildren To his Wives Hee was undoubtedly a very kinde Husband to them all for we read of no jarres or brawles O that Husbands would live void of contention with their Wives O that their houses might be peaceable It is a forerunner of ruine when an house is divided against it selfe But specially towards Rachael it is noted how hee loved her Gen. 29.30 that is very much more than the rest Indeed he had cause she was his true Wife for whom hee first agreed Leah was forced upon him he might lawfully have refused her yea and had not the custome of the times tolerated poligamy hee must have refused her and taken Rachael for whom hee made his agreement and so in a sort contracted himselfe too Now the light that hath shewed it selfe amongst us causeth that poligamy is banished therefore every one amongst us is bound to love his Wife as Iacob did Rachael which is also the speciall commandement Woe unto those Husbands therefore that what shew of love soever they make unto their Wives at first yet within a while are so sowre and churlish unto them that they shew an extinguishment of love to have befallen them So farre as any man faileth of loving his Wife he must also faile of loving God It is possible to love the Wife and not God but to love God and not the wife is impossible Therefore now you husbands strive to love your wives and you Wives carry your selves so respectively and humbly as to win love at your husbands hands Nothing but this can make you live happily together all riches honours pleasures be no farther soundly comfortable than the husband and wife are loving each to other Now God can give love to them that aske as well as wisdome and let him that would love his wife pray for it and withall withdraw his heart from strange women But againe Iacob could be duly angry with his wife and reprove her for her fault for when she in a great rage cals to him for children and would die if she had none He is angry at her but with such moderation that he gives her a due reproofe but no distempered language saying Am I in Gods stead that hath