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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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Answ. We must know, that howsoever Jacob sought the blessing by fraud, yet he might be blessed; for, he failed not, neither did amiss in seeking for the blessing, but only in the manner of seeking it: it was his duty to seek it, though not after that manner which he did; he should rather have stayed that leisure and time, wherein God had caused Isaac to have blessed him, without his sin in seeking it.
Answ. Wee must knowe, that howsoeuer Iacob sought the blessing by fraude, yet he might bee blessed; for, he failed not, neither did amisse in seeking for the blessing, but onely in the manner of seeking it: it was his duty to seeke it, though not after that manner which hee did; hee should rather haue staied that leisure and time, wherein God had caused Isaac to haue blessed him, without his sinne in seeking it.
Secondly, consider the manner how Jacob receives his fathers blessing; namely, in his elder brother Esau's garment.
Secondly, consider the manner how Iacob receiues his fathers blessing; namely, in his elder brother Esaus garment.
Here we may see a notable resemblance of Gods manner of blessing us: When we look for a blessing at Gods hand, we must not come in our own garments, in the rotten rags of our own righteousness; but we must put on Christs garment, the long white robe of his righteousness. And so coming unto God, as Isaac said of the savour of Esau's garments, which Jacob had put on, (Gen. 27.27, 28.) Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field; God give thee therefore of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of wheat and wine: So will God say unto us, ⟨p. 357⟩