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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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Whence we learn, that all Gods Ministers, and those which prepare themselves to the work of the Ministry, are diligently to read and study the holy Scriptures, and to meditate therein. No doubt, the Author of this Epistle was an Apostle, and had most notable gifts by virtue of his calling, and yet he bestowed pains in viewing the particular words of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, recorded by Moses in the book of Genesis. Daniel also was an extraordinary Prophet: yet (as we may read) Daniel 9.2, he studied with admirable diligence the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel. And Timothy, though he were a Disciple (Acts 16.1) and well learned: yet Paul chargeth him to give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine, 1. Timothy 4.13. And Ezekiel is commanded to eat the role, and to fill his belly with it, Ezekiel 3.3: And Saint John likewise is commanded to eat up the little book, Revelations, 10.9.10: which thing he did: all which strongly enforce the former duty, showing that Gods servant in the Ministry, must as it were eat up Gods book; that in ⟨p. 295⟩judgement and understanding, he may digest as far as is possible the deep things of God, and the hardest places of the Scripture: here must he lay his foundation, and hither have recourse from all other writing whatsoever, in any matter of doubt.
Whence we learne, that all Gods Ministers, and those which prepare themselues to the worke of the Ministerie, are diligently to reade and study the holy Scriptures, and to meditate therein. No doubt, the Author of this Epistle was an Apostle, and had most notable giftes by vertue of his calling, and yet hee bestowed paines in viewing the particular words of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, recorded by Moses in the booke of Genesis. Daniell also was an extraordinarie Prophet: yet (as wee may reade) Daniel 9.2, hee studied with admirable diligence the prophecies of Ieremie and Ezekiel. And Timothie, though he were a Disciple (