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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Spouse (in the Canticles) which is the Church of God, or a true Christian soul, whether you will (for it is true both in the general, and particular) Cant. 3.2.3, She seeks Christ every where, in the streets and open places, but she finds him not; then she goes to the watch-men (which are Gods ministers) and there inquires after him whom her soul loved, and they cannot tell her where she might find him; so that now all hope of finding him might seem to be past: but when she was a little from them, then she found him, and Christ comes to her when she was most in fear not to have found him at all.
The Spouse (in the Canticles) which is the Church of God, or a true Christian soule, whether you will (for it is true both in the generall, and particular) Cant. 3.2.3, Shee seekes Christ euery where, in the streetes and open places, but shee findes him not; then shee goes to the watch-men (which are Gods ministers) and there inquires after him whom her soule loued, and they cannot tell her where shee might finde him; so that now all hope of finding him might seeme to be past: but when shee was a little from them, then shee found him, and Christ comes to her when shee was most in feare not to haue found him at all.
The people of Israel, were many years in bondage in Egypt: and when the time came that Moses was sent of God to fetch them thence, and to be their guide and deliverer; when he had brought them out, and carried them to the red sea, then came Pharaoh with a huge army after them to destroy them, Exod. 14.25. Before, they had been in great affliction and bondage: but now they were quite past all hope of recovery; for they had before them the read sea, and on each side of them great hills and mountains, and behind them the huge host of Pharaoh; and therefore they cried out unto Moses, who then by GODs commandment did divide the read sea, and made it dry land, and delivered them through the middest of the read sea: but as for their enemies, Pharaoh and all his host, the Lord drowned them in the middest thereof.