A09376:1131
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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Thirdly, if God will honour them that honour him; then by the contrary, consider what a miserable case many a man is in: For, those that dishonour God, God will dishonour them again; as we may see at large, and very plainly, in the example of Ely, and his two sons: for, them that honour me (saith the Lord unto him) I will honour, and they that despise me shall be despised, 1. Sam. 2.30. And in Zechariah we may read, that the man that by blasphemy, theft, or perjury, dishonoureth God, the flying curse of the Lord shall enter into his house, and remain in the middest thereof, and consume it with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof: Zach. 5.4. And because Ely did more honour his children than God, 1. Sam. 2.31, therefore the Lord threateneth the destruction both of him, and his family: and according as the Lord had threatened, so it came to pass. For, when the Israelites fought with the Philistines (Chap. 4.11.) his two sons were slain; and hear the hearing of the news, fell down and brake his neck.
Thirdly, if God wil honour them that honour him; then by the contrary, consider what a miserable case many a man is in: For, those that dishonour God, God will dishonour them againe; as wee may see at large, and very plainely, in the example of Elie, and his two sonnes: for, them that honour me (saith the Lord vnto him) I wil honour, and they that despise me shall be despised, 1. Sam. 2.30. And in Zacharie wee may reade, that the man that by blasphemie, theft, or periurie, dishonoureth God, the flying curse of the Lord shall enter into his house, and remaine in the middest thereof, and consume it with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof: Zach. 5.4. And because Elie did more honour his children than God, 1. Sam. 2.31, therefore the Lord threateneth the destruction both of him, and his familie: and according as the Lord had threatened, so it came to passe. For, when the Israelites fought with the Philistims (Chap. 4.11.) his two sonnes were slaine; and hear the hearing of the newes, fell downe and brake his necke.