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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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Secondly, here observe, God calleth them out of their own country, and biddeth them live in the land of Canaan, as strangers and pilgrims; and so they do, abiding there, without any purpose to return; nay, they are not mindful of their former home.
Secondly, here obserue, God calleth them out of their owne countrie, and biddeth them liue in the land of Canaan, as strangers and pilgrimes; and so they doe, abiding there, without any purpose to returne; nay, they are not mindfull of their former home.
Hence we are taught, to be constant in that calling whereunto God hath called us. It is a fearful sin, for a man to go back from that calling, in which God hath placed him. When the Israelites abode not patiently, and constantly, with God in the wilderness, but desired to shake off the calling of God, & to return to Egypt, there to sit by the flesh-pots again; they had Gods hand upon them grievously: as we may read at large, Psalm. 78. Lots wife, for looking back, when she was commanded to the contrary; was fearfully, and strangely punished, being turned into a pillar of salt, Gen. 19.26. And our Saviour Christ saith, Luk. 9.62, No man that putteth his hand to the Lords plough, and looketh back again, is apt to the kingdom of God. As though he had said, He that starteth from the plough, is not fit for the field: no more is he that shifteth from his calling, fit for Gods service.
Hence wee are taught, to bee constant in that calling whereunto God hath called vs. It is a fearefull sinne, for a man to goe backe from that calling, in which God hath placed him. When the Israelites abode not patiently, and constantly, with God in the wildernesse, but desired to shake off the calling of God, & to returne to Egypt, there to sit by the flesh-pots againe; they had Gods hand vpon them grieuously: as we may read at large,