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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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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⟩faith, wherby a man imbraceth Christian religion: or wherby a man beleeueth the word of God in the doctrine of the law, and the Gospel, to be true. My reason is, because a man that neuer had iustifying and sauing faith, and is no member of the catholike Church, nor childe of God, may haue this gift, To beleeue that God by his word made the world of nothing. Therefore, I thinke that this is an action of a generall, and not of sauing faith.
We understand
We vnderstand
That is: Whereas there are many things beyond the reach of reason, and therefore by reason cannot be apprehended or understood, yet by virtue of this faith a man is brought to understand them, and to believe them to be true.