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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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God made mans body pure and holy & therefore it had no need to be covered: but with sin came shame,1 & thence came it that God gave us apparel to cover that shame that sin had brought upon us: so oft therefore as a man puts on his apparel, he should be humbled & ashamed by it: and think thus with himself▪ This was not so at the first; Adams body was glorious: whence came this ignominy & shame, which we must cover with apparel? it came from my sin; therefore so often as a man puts it on, so oft should he be quite ashamed of himself, which hath brought this shame upon himself: so as now he must needs have a cloak to cover his shame. But do men make this end of their apparel? nay, rather they make it a banner to display their pride and vanity: and so far are many from being ashamed of it, as that they are contrariwise proud of it. But this is as abominable, & cursed, and senseless a pride, as if the prisoner should be proud of his bolts & fetters, which are signs of his misdemeanour: for, what is thy apparel (make the best of it)? it is but a beautiful cloak of thy filthy shame: then, as bolts & fetters are burdenous, and shameful, though they be of gold: so is the cloak of thy shame, thy apparel, though it be silk, silver or gold: for we should not be ashamed only of ordinary apparel, or base: but even of the ⟨p. 28⟩most gorgeous; knowing that once, we had a glory of our own, far above all the glory of apparel: and the Ignominy that sin hath brought upon us, is greater then this glory of apparel can take away.
God made mans body pure and holy & therfore it had no need to be couerd: but with sin came shame,1 & thence came it that God gaue vs apparell to couer that shame that sin had brought vpon vs: so oft therfore as a man puts on his apparell, he should be humbled & ashamed by it: and think thus with himselfe▪ This was not so at the first; Adams body was glorious: whence came this ignominie & shame, which we must couer with apparel? it came from my sin; therfore so often as a man puts it on, so oft should he be quite ashamed of himselfe, which hath brought this shame vpō himselfe: so as now he must needs haue a cloake to couer his shame. But do mē make this end of their apparel? nay, rather they make it a banner to display their pride and vanity: and so farre are many from being ashamed of it, as that they are contrariwise proud of it. But this is as abhominable, & cursed, and senselesse a pride, as if the prisoner should be proud of his bolts & fetters, which are signes of his misdemeanour: for, what is thy apparel (make the best of it)? it is but a beautiful cloake of thy filthy shame: then, as bolts & fetters are burdenous, and shamefull, though they be of gold: so is the cloake of thy shame, thy apparel, thogh it be silk, siluer or gold: for we shold not be ashamed only of ordinary aparel, or base: but euē of the