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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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Were ordained.
The second point, in this example, is the manner. Did God make a perfect or an imperfect world? The text answereth, it was ordained. The word signifieth thus much; God framed ⟨p. 24⟩[…] ⟨p. 25⟩[…] ⟨p. 26⟩the Ages, that is, all creatures, visible and invisible, in a most excellent, perfect, & absolute order. As in a camp every man keeps his rank and order, and no man goeth out of his standing appointed him: So every creature had his due place, and his proper use assigned him of God: so that the workmanship of the world in every creature, & in every respect was absolute: and thus (ordained) is as much as perfectly made. And the whole world was as the perfect body of a man, where every member, bone, joint, vein, & sinew is in his proper place, and nothing out of square.
The second point, in this example, is the māner. Did God make a perfect or an imperfect world? The text answereth, it was ordained. The word signifieth thus much; God framed ⟨p. 24⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 25⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 26⟩the Ages, that is, all creatures, visible and inuisible, in a most excellent, perfect, & absolute order. As in a campe euerie man keepes his ranke and order, and no man goeth out of his standing appointed him: So euery creature had his due place, and his proper vse assigned him of God: so that the workmanship of the world in euery creature, & in euery respect was absolute: and thus (ordained) is as much as perfectly made. And the whole world was as the perfect body of a man, where euery member, bone, ioynt, veine, & sinew is in his proper place, and nothing out of square.