A09376:1307
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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Here then is confuted an opinion of those, which think that a man may worship God with his heart, & yet worship images with his body; that he may be present at idolatrous worship, yet keep his heart unto God. But Jacobs behaviour, in this place, doth both confute and condemn them: for, he thought his body as due to God, as his soul; and therefore worshipped God with both.
Here then is confuted an opiniō of those, which thinke that a man may worship God with his heart, & yet worship images with his body; that he may bee present at idolatrous worship, yet keep his heart vnto God. But Iacobs behauiour, in this place, doth both confute and condemne them: for, he thought his body as due to God, as his soule; and therefore worshipped God with both.
3. Circumstance: The time when he worshipped God thus; namely, when he was dying, even then he worshipped God. In this circumstance we may note divers things.
3. Circumstance: The time when hee worshipped God thus; namely, when he was dying, euen then he worshipped God. In this circumstance we may note diuers things.
First, here behold the bad practice of the world; for, many men when they are dying, now-adays, are so far from following Jacobs example in worshipping and praising God; that then they are fain to call for men to teach them how they should worship God: having spent the former part of their life carelessly, in regard of their souls; following worldly profits and pleasures, never thinking of their duty to God, till they die. But what a fearful course is this, that men should thus brutishly go on from day to day, not knowing how to worship God? Well, all such as love their own souls, and would be like to godly Jacob; or (as our Saviour Christ said to Nathaniel) would be true Israelites,