A09376:1267
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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Thus much of Isaacs blessing Jacob. Now I come to his blessing of Esau: for he also was blessed, as the Text saith; yet in the second place, albeit he were the elder brother. Quest. How could Esau be blessed at all, seeing Isaac had but one blessing? Answ. Esau was only blessed with temporal blessings, and not with spiritual. Object. But some will say, Esau was a bad man, & wicked; now it is said, that to the impure all things are impure: how then could the bestowing of temporal things be blessings to him? An. Temporal things bestowed on the wicked are blessings, ⟨p. 358⟩& no blessings: they are blessings in regard of God, that gives them; but they are no blessings, in regard of men that receive them, and use them amiss.
Thus much of Isaacs blessing Iacob. Now I come to his blessing of Esau: for hee also was blessed, as the Text saith; yet in the second place, albeit he were the elder brother. Quest. How could Esau be blessed at all, seeing Isaac had but one blessing? Answ. Esau was only blessed with temporall blessings, and not with spirituall. Obiect. But some wil say, Esau was a bad man, & wicked; now it is said, that to the impure all things are impure: how then could the bestowing of tēporal things be blessings to him? An. Temporall things bestowed on the wicked are blessings, ⟨p. 358⟩& no blessings: they are blessings in regard of God, that giues them; but they are no blessings, in regard of men that receiue them, and vse them amisse.
Quest. How came it to pass, that Esau being the elder brother, looseth his birth-right, and blessing both; how came it to be Jacob's?
Quest. How came it to passe, that Esau beeing the elder brother, looseth his birth-right, and blessing both; how came it to be Iaacobs?