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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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In the handling hereof, first we will entreat of the nature of this temptation, and then come to the circumstances belonging to the same.
In the handling hereof, first wee will intreat of the nature of this temptation, and then come to the circumstances belonging to the same.
Temptation (as it is here used, may be thus described) It is an action of God, whereby he proveth, and makes experience of the loyalty and obedience of his servants. First (I say) it is an action of God: This is plain by the testimony of Moses in Genesis, Gen. 22.1. where (if we read the history) we shall find that God did prove Abraham. Object. But against this it may be objected, that Saint James saith, James 1.13, God tempteth no man: and therefore no temptation is the action of God? Answ. That place in James is thus to be understood; God tempteth no man: that is, God doth not stir up, or move any mans heart to sin. Yet further it will be said, That temptation is an action of Satan; for so ⟨p. 319⟩in the Gospel we may read (Mat. 4.3,) that he is called the tempter? Answ. Some temptations are the actions of God, and some the actions of Satan: God tempteth, and Satan tempteth; but there is great difference in their temptations: first, in the manner; for, Satan tempteth a man to sin against the will of God, and to do some evil: God tempteth a man to do something, which shall be only against his own affections, or his reason. Secondly, God tempteth for the good of his servants: but Satan tempteth for the destruction both of their bodies and souls.
Temptation (as it is here vsed, may be thus described) It is an action of God, whereby he prooueth, and makes experience of the loyaltie and obedience of his seruants. First (I say) it is an action of God: This is plaine by the testimony of Moses in Genesis,