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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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Here further it may well be demanded; How Abraham ⟨p. 316⟩could take Isaac and bind him, and lay him on the altar to have offered him: for, though the common opinion be, that he was but 13. years old, yet the more received opinion of the best Writers is, that Isaac was 25. or 27. years old. How then could Abraham being an old man of more then 120. years, be able to bind Isaac being a young and lusty man, and lay him on the altar to kill him? For though Abraham had a commandment to kill Isaac, yet we find not that God commanded Isaac to suffer himself to be killed; now Nature moves every one to seek to save his own life, and to resist such as would kill us. How then was Isaac brought to yield thus far to his Father?
Here further it may well be demaunded; How Abraham ⟨p. 316⟩could take Isaac and binde him, and lay him on the altar to haue offred him: for, though the common opinion be, that he was but 13. yeares olde, yet the more receiued opinion of the best Writers is, that Isaac was 25. or 27. yeares olde. How then could Abraham being an olde man of more then 120. yeares, be able to binde Isaac being a young and lusty man, and lay him on the altar to kill him? For though Abraham had a commaundement to kill Isaac, yet wee finde not that God commaunded Isaac to suffer himselfe to be killed; now Nature moues euery one to seeke to saue his owne life, and to resist such as would kill vs. How then was Isaac brought to yeeld thus farre to his Father?
For answer hereunto, we are to know, that Abraham was no ordinary man, but a Prophet, and that an excellent and extraordinary Prophet: So God himself testifieth of him to Abimelech; He is a Prophet, and he shall pray for thee: 1yea, he was esteemed and reverenced as a Prophet, & an honourable man, even of the heathen. The Hittites tell him: Thou art a Prince of God amongst us.