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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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Lastly, observe the circumstance of time, when Joseph made remembrance of their departing. The text saith, When he was dying. Hereof we have spoken in the former verse: yet this one thing may here again be well remembered; Joseph calls to mind the promises of God at his death, which concern the temporal deliverance of his people: & we by his example, when we are dying, must learn to call to remembrance the gracious promises, which God hath made unto us in Christ, touching our eternal deliverance from the spiritual bondage of the devil. Oh! great will be the fruit hereof, not only for inward comfort to our own souls, and joy to such as love us; but also we shall hereby give a worthy evidence to the world, that we have bin sound in the faith: wherein, we shall leave a good president to those that follow us.
Lastly, obserue the circumstance of time, when Ioseph made remembrance of their departing. The text saith, When he was dying. Hereof wee haue spoken in the former verse: yet this one thing may here againe bee well remembred; Ioseph cals to mind the promises of God at his death, which concerne the temporall deliuerance of his people: & we by his example, when we are dying, must learne to call to remembrance the gracious promises, which God hath made vnto vs in Christ, touching our eternall deliuerance from the spirituall bondage of the diuell. Oh! great will bee the fruit hereof, not onely for inward comfort to our own soules, and ioy to such as loue vs; but also we shall hereby giue a worthy euidence to the world, that we haue bin sound in the faith: wherein, we shall leaue a good president to those that follow vs.
The second fact of Josephs faith is this▪ He gave commandment concerning his bones. The meaning thereof is this: that Joseph lying on his death bed, gave a solemn charge to his brethren, to have special care how and where they buried him; that his bones might not be lost, but so preserved while they stayed in Egypt, that at their departure they might be carried into the land of Canaan, & there buried in the sepulchre of his fathers. The causes why Joseph gave this commandment were these: 1 Hereby to testify unto his brethren & posterity, that howsoever he lived a long