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A cloud of faithful witnesses, leading to the heavenly Canaan, or, A commentary upon…A cloud of faithfull witnesses, leading to the heauenly Canaan, or, A commentarie vpon…
A cloud of faithful witnesses, leading to the heavenly Canaan, or, A commentary upon the 11 chapter to the Hebrews preached in Cambridge by that godly, and judicious divine, M. William Perkins ; long expected and desired, and therefore published at the request of his executors, by Will. Crashawe and Tho. Pierson, preachers of Gods Word, who heard him preach it, and wrote it from his mouth.A cloud of faithfull witnesses, leading to the heauenly Canaan, or, A commentarie vpon the 11 chapter to the Hebrewes preached in Cambridge by that godly, and iudicious divine, M. William Perkins ; long expected and desired, and therefore published at the request of his executours, by Will. Crashawe and Tho. Pierson, preachers of Gods Word, who heard him preach it, and wrote it from his mouth.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for Leo. Greene, 1607London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for Leo. Greene, 1607
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Now, the matter in them contained is, that here is the performance of one of the greatest promises made to Abraham. The promise is, Genes. 22.17, I will surely bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars in the heaven, and as the sands by the sea shore. There is the promise; and behold here the performance, in the very same words, and that most true and effectual: For, at the time when the holy Ghost wrote these words, the Israelites were multiplied to many millions; yea to a number past number.
Now, the matter in them contained is, that here is the performance of one of the greatest promises made to Abraham. The promise is, Genes. 22.17, I will surely blesse thee, and greatly multiply thy seede, as the starres in the heauen, and as the sands by the sea shoare. There is the promise; and beholde here the performance, in the very same wordes, and that most true and effectuall: For, at the time when the holy Ghost wrote these words, the Israelites were multiplied to many millions; yea to a number past number.
So that here we learn, God is true in all his promises, be they never so great or wonderful. If he speak the word, if the promise pass him, it is sure: Heaven and earth shall rather pass away, than any one piece of his promise shall fail.
So that here we learne, God is true in all his promises, bee they neuer so great or wonderfull. If hee speake the word, if the promise passe him, it is sure: Heauen and earth shall rather passe away, than any one piece of his promise shall faile.
The use is to teach us, first, to believe God when he promiseth, what-ever it be for, he is worthy to be believed, who never failed to perform what he promised. He promised these Millions to Abraham, when he had but one child; nay when he had never a one: