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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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This plainly confuteth all those that neglect or contemn the Ministry and preaching of the word, & look for extraordinary revelations, and for visions & dreams, for the begetting and increase of faith and grace in their hearts. But our Saviour Christ doth notably check all such in the Parable of the rich man, by the words of Abraham to Dives;1 saying, of Dives brethren, that they had Moses and the Prophets; if they will not hear them, neither will they believe though one should come from the dead again (Verse ⟨p. 379⟩31): insinuating, that if a man will not believe by the preaching of the word, there is nothing in the world will make him to believe; neither revelations, nor visions, no not the words of them that rise again from the dead.
This plainly confuteth all those that neglect or contemne the Ministerie and preaching of the word, & looke for extraordinarie reuelations, and for visions & dreames, for the begetting and encrease of faith and grace in their hearts. But our Sauiour Christ doth notably checke all such in the Parable of the rich man, by the words of Abraham to Diues;1 saying, of Diues brethren, that they had Moses and the Prophets; if they will not heare them, neither will they beleeue though one should come from the dead againe (Verse ⟨p. 379⟩31): insinuating, that if a man will not beleeue by the preaching of the word, there is nothing in the world will make him to beleeue; neither reuelations, nor visions, no not the words of them that rise againe from the dead.
- 1Luke 16.