A09376:1129
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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Hence we may learn many things. First, that all that profess religion truly, must inure themselves to go through good report and ill report, and in all estates to be content, for Gods honours sake: as Paul saith; I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content: I can be abased and I can abound;1 every where in all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, to abound & to have want. Thus spake that holy man of God: & so must we all endeavour to say, & accordingly to practice. And the reason is good: because if a man honour God, howsoever he be contemned, or not regarded in the world, yet God will honour him, & esteem highly of him: that will prove the way to all true honour, as it hath done, even in this world to all that tried it.
Hence we may learn many things. First, that all that professe religion truly, must inure themselues to go through good report and ill report, and in all estates to be content, for Gods honours sake: as Paul saith; I haue learned in whatsoeuer state I am, therewith to be content: I can be abased and I can abound;1 euery where in all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, to abound & to haue want. Thus spake that holy man of God: & so must we all endeauour to say, & accordingly to practice. And the reason is good: because if a man honor God, howsoeuer he be contemned, or not regarded in the world, yet God wil honour him, & esteeme highly of him: that will proue the way to all true honour, as it hath done, euen in this world to all that tried it.
Secondly, hence we learn which is the true way to get sound honour amongst men; namely, to honour God. Good estimation in the world is not to be contemned, for the Lord commandeth all inferiors to honour their superiors, whereby he also bindeth every man to preserve his own dignity.