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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.
IN this verse is contained the third action or effect of faith, namely this; Faith makes a man to understand things beyond the reach of mans reason. This third effect is set out in these words, by the instance of a notable example: namely, of the Creation of the world; 1. By the word of God. 2. Of nothing: both which, that we may the better understand, let us consider of the words as they lye in order.
IN this verse is contained the third action or effect of faith, namely this; Faith makes a man to vnderstand things beyond the reach of mans reason. This third effect is set out in these words, by the instance of a notable exsample: namely, of the Creation of the world; 1. By the word of God. 2. Of nothing: both which, that wee may the better vnderstand, let vs consider of the words as they lye in order.
Through faith.
1. By faith, in this place (as I take it) is not meant that saving faith, which justifies a man before God: but a general ⟨p. 23⟩faith, whereby a man embraceth Christian religion: or whereby a man believeth the word of God in the doctrine of the law, and the Gospel, to be true. My reason is, because a man that never had justifying and saving faith, and is no member of the catholic Church, nor child of God, may have this gift, To believe that God by his word made the world of nothing. Therefore, I think that this is an action of a general, and not of saving faith.
1. By faith, in this place (as I take it) is not meant that sauing faith, which iustifies a man before God: but a generall ⟨p. 23⟩