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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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To go further: These Patriarchs profess two things: 1. That they were strangers: 2. That they were Pilgrims. A stranger, is one that hath his abode not in his own, but in a strange Country, though he travail not.
To goe further: These Patriarchs professe two things: 1. That they were strangers: 2. That they were Pilgrimes. A stranger, is one that hath his abode not in his owne, but in a strange Country, though he trauaile not.
And a Pilgrim is one that is going through a foreign Country to his own home. Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob were strangers, because they dwelt as strangers in Tents, not in their own Countries where they were borne; but in that strange Country, whither God had called them: and they were Pilgrims, because they were always ready to go thence, whithersoever GOD would call them: and in all places wheresoever they were, still they waited on God, and sought to him for the kingdom of heaven.
And a Pilgrime is one that is going through a forraine Country to his owne home. Abraham, Isaac, & Iacob were strangers, because they dwelt as strangers in Tents, not in their owne Countries where they were borne; but in that strange Country, whither God had called them: and they were Pilgrimes, because they were alwaies ready to goe thence, whithersoeuer GOD would call them: and in all places wheresoeuer they were, still they waited on God, and sought to him for the kingdome of heauen.
Now this was not proper to these Patriarchs, but is also common to all Christians, that look to be saved by the same faith: for David, long after them, confesseth unto God, Psal. 39.12: that he is a Stranger and a Pilgrim, or sojourner ⟨p. 287⟩