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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.
First, for the blessing: Of this kind of blessing, we entreated in the former verse, in the example of Isaacs faith; and therefore need not now repeat the same. Only this we must remember, that this blessing of Jacob is not the common or ordinary blessing of a Father, but the ⟨p. 362⟩extraordinary blessing of an holy Patriarch and Prophet of God. The blessing it self stands in three things: 1. Jacob makes the sons of Joseph his own sons, adopting them and taking them into his family. And this is the meaning of those words in Genesis, where Jacob saith as he is blessing them, Let my name be named upon them, and the name of my Fathers, Abraham and Isaac; Gen. 48.16, that is, they shall be received into my family, and be my children, called after my name.
First, for the blessing: Of this kinde of blessing, wee entreated in the former verse, in the example of Isaacs faith; and therefore neede not now repeate the same. Onely this wee must remember, that this blessing of Iacob is not the common or ordinarie blessing of a Father, but the ⟨p. 362⟩extraordinarie blessing of an holy Patriarch and Prophet of God. The blessing it self stands in three things: 1. Iacob makes the sonnes of Ioseph his own sonnes, adopting them and taking them into his family. And this is the meaning of those words in Genesis, where Iacob saith as hee is blessing them, Let my name be named vpon them, and the name of my Fathers, Abraham and Isaac; Gen. 48.16, that is, they shall be receiued into my family, and be my children, called after my name.
2. He gives them two portions in the Land of Canaan: for Jacob was made an instrument of God, by way of prophecy to distinguish and divide the Land of Canaan among his children.