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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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Verse 24. By faith, Moses when he was come to age, refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter. 25. And chose rather to suffer adversity with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. 26. Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches, than the treasures of Egypt: For he had respect unto the recompense of reward.
Verse 24. By faith, Moses when he was come to age, refused to bee called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter. 25. And chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God, than to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season. 26. Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches, than the treasures of Egypt: For hee had respect vnto the recompence of reward.
Here the holy Ghost comes to the commendation of Moses faith, and in these three verses propounds a most notable example hereof.
HEre the holy Ghost comes to the commendation of Moses faith, and in these three verses propounds a most notable example hereof.
By Moses faith, in this place, we must understand saving faith; which is nothing else, but a gift of GOD, whereby Moses received the promise of God touching salvation by the Messiah, and of the promised Land, made to Abraham and to his seed after him, and applied the same unto himself particularly.
By Moses faith, in this place, we must vnderstand sauing faith; which is nothing else, but a gift of GOD, whereby Moses receiued the promise of God touching saluation by the Messias, and of the promised Land, made to Abraham and to his seede after him, and applied the same vnto himselfe particularly.