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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
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.
1. Is laid down their constancy and continuance; All these died in faith. 2. That constancy is set fourth by four effects: 1. They received not the promises, but saw them afar off. 2. They believed them. 3. Received them thankfully. 4. Professed themselves strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
1. Is laid downe their constancy and continuance; All these died in faith. 2. That constancy is set fourth by foure effects: 1. They receiued not the promises, but saw them afarre off. 2. They beleeued them. 3. Receiued them thankefully. 4. Professed themselues strangers and pilgrimes on the earth.
The first point touching these believers is; that as they begun, so they held on: as they lived, so they died in faith.
The first point touching these beleeuers is; that as they begun, so they held on: as they liued, so they died in faith.
All these died in faith.
The trueth of the matter, in the words, may be referred to all afore going, saving Enoch; who died not; yet he continued also constant in his faith, and in that faith was taken up: but as for Abel and Noah, they died in faith. Yet I take it, that principally and directly the holy Ghost intended no more than these four I named: and my reason is, because the particular effects in this verse, and the points whereby this their constancy is amplified in the three verses following,