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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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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.
So for our selues, when God shall exercise any of vs in cases of extremitie, wee must looke to bee so dealt withall at Gods hand; Hee will let vs alone for a time, and neuer helpe vs, till the last pinch: and therefore, we must waite for his good pleasure with patience; for, this he will doe to trie vs to the full, and to make manifest the graces of God wrought in vs.
The third circumstance to be considered is this: In what manner did Abraham receive his son from the dead. This we may read of, Gen. 22.13, He must take a Ram that was caught behind him in a bush, and offer him in stead of Isaac: so Isaac is saved, and the Ram is sacrificed and slain.
The third circumstance to be considered is this: In what manner did Abraham receiue his sonne from the dead. This we may read of, Gen. 22.13, Hee must take a Ramme that was caught behinde him in a bush, and offer him in stead of Isaac: so Isaac is saued, and the Ramme is sacrificed and slaine.
Now whereas Abraham offered Isaac in sacrifice to God, and yet Isaac liveth, and the Ram is slain in his stead: Hence some gather this use, and we may profitably consider of the same; to wit, that the sacrifices which we offer unto God, now under the Gospel, must be living sacrifices: for, Isaac he was offered in sacrifice to God, & yet he lived and died not, but the Ram is slain for him. So must we offer our selves in sacrifice unto God, not dead in sin, but living unto God in righteousness and true holiness. And thus shall we offer up our selves living sacrifices unto God, when as we consecrate our selves unto Gods service, and obey him in our lives and callings. And look, as under the Law the burnt offerings were burnt all to smoke and ashes; so must we in our lives, wholly and altogether, give our selves unto God, and renouncing our selves, be nothing to the world, but wholly dedicated to God. Neither must we come unto him in our sins: for sin makes our sacrifice dead, lame, halt, and blind, which God doth abhor; but we must bring our selves living sacrifices unto God (as Paul saith, Ro. 12.1.) I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that you give up your bodies a living sacrifice, holy & acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable serving of God.