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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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Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called […] their God, for he hath prepared for them a city.
Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called 〈…〉 their God, for hee hath prepared for them a citie.
In these words is laid down a second reason, whereby is proved, that these Patriarchs died in the faith, seeking their country in heaven. The reason is drawn from the testimony of God himself, recorded by Moses in the book ⟨p. 305⟩of Exodus, where God saith, He is the God of their Fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Exodus 3.16.
In these words is laid downe a second reason, whereby is prooued, that these Patriarchs died in the faith, seeking their countrie in heauen. The reason is drawen from the testimony of God himselfe, recorded by Moses in the booke ⟨p. 305⟩of Exodus, where God saith, He is the God of their Fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, Exodus 3.16.
The exposition. Wherefore] that is, that this might appear and be evident, that these Patriarchs died in the faith, and sought this Country of heaven, God was content to vouchsafe & grant unto them this favour, to be called their God.