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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 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.
The people of Israel, were many yeares 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 deliuerer; when he had brought them out, and carried them to the red sea, then came Pharaoh with a huge armie after them to destroy them, Exod. 14.25. Before, they had beene in great affliction and bondage: but nowe they were quite past all hope of recouery; for they had before them the redde sea, and on each side of them great hilles and mountaines, and behinde them the huge hoast of Pharaoh; and therefore they cried out vnto Moses, who then by GODs commaundement did diuide the redde sea, and made it drie land, and deliuered them through the middest of the redde sea: but as for their enemies, Pharaoh and all his hoast, the Lord drowned them in the middest thereof.
So for our selves, when God shall exercise any of us in cases of extremity, we must look to be so dealt withal at Gods hand; He will let us alone for a time, and never help us, till the last pinch: and therefore, we must wait for his good pleasure with patience; for, this he will do to try us to the full, and to make manifest the graces of God wrought in us.