A09376:1161
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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Now further, God tempteth men three ways: first, by Judgements, and Calamities in this world: so the Lord saith to the Israelites, Deut. 8.2, Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness for to humble thee, for to prove and to know what is in thy heart. That journey might have been gone in forty days, but God did lead them in it forty years; to prove and try by this unwonted calamity, whether they would obey him, or not. So likewise God suffered false prophets, and Dreamers of dreams, to come among the people; for this end, To prove them, and to know whether they loved the Lord their God, with all their heart, and with all their soul, Deut. 13.3. Now this first kind of temptations, by outward Judgements, is most grievous; when the Lord layeth his own hand upon his servants so heavily, as they shall think themselves to be quite forsaken. In this temptation was ⟨p. 320⟩David as we may read at large: Psal. the 6: and Psal. 38: and Job being afflicted not only outwardly in body, but inwardly in mind, crieth out, that the arrows of the Almighty were in him; Job 6.4, and through the whole chapter he bewaileth his grievous estate by reason of this temptation.
Now further, God tempteth men three waies: first, by Iudgements, and Calamities in this world: so the Lord saith to the Israelites, Deut. 8.2, Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God ledde thee this fortie years in the wildernesse for to humble thee, for to prooue and to know what is in thy heart. That iourney might haue beene gone in forty daies, but God did lead them in it forty yeares; to prooue and trie by this vnwoonted calamity, whether they would obey him, or not. So likewise God suffered false prophets, and Dreamers of dreames, to come among the people; for this ende, To prooue them, and to know whether they loued the Lord their God, with all their heart, and with all their soule,