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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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Thirdly, see here, true honour and gentry, is to live and die in the true faith, and holy religion of our ancestors: ⟨p. 274⟩here is the fountain of honour, to do as these did. Abraham perceives he is wrong, and erred with his fathers; he therefore leaves his fathers and grand-fathers religion, & goeth up higher, and takes a better. Isaac his son, makes himself heir, not of his land alone; but of his fathers religion also: Jacob the grand-child, follows both, and dieth in faith with them. Behold here Jacob, a true gentleman in blood; his holiness and religion is in the third descent: Let us all learn to adorn our gentility and nobility with these ensigns of true honour.
Thirdly, see here, true honour and gentry, is to liue and die in the true faith, and holy religion of our auncestors: ⟨p. 274⟩here is the fountaine of honour, to doe as these did. Abraham perceiues he is wrong, and erred with his fathers; hee therefore leaues his fathers and grand-fathers religion, & goeth vp higher, and takes a better. Isaac his sonne, makes himselfe heire, not of his land alone; but of his fathers religion also: Iaacob the grand-childe, follows both, and dieth in faith with them. Behold here Iaacob, a true gentleman in blood; his holinesse and religion is in the third descent: Let vs all learne to adorne our gentilitie and nobilitie with these ensignes of true honour.
And let all them, that shame to stain their blood by treasons, or misdemeanours; shame also, to let their forefathers religion, holiness, or virtues, fail in them: but let them all so live in them, that with Jacob they may die in their fathers faith.
And let all them, that shame to staine their blood by treasons, or misdemeanors; shame also, to let their forefathers religion, holinesse, or vertues, faile in them: but let them all so liue in them, that with Iaacob they may die in their fathers faith.