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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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It is a great prerogative to be heir to a King or Emperor: but yet to be the child of God, goes far beyond it, even above comparison. For, the son of the greatest Potentate may be the child of wrath: but the child of God by grace, hath Christ Jesus to be his eldest brother, with whom he is fellow heir in heaven; he hath the holy Ghost also for his comforter, and the Kingdom of heaven for his everlasting inheritance. And therefore we must learn of Moses, from the bottom of our hearts, to prefer this one thing, To be the child of God, before all earthly things, either pleasures, riches, or any other prerogatives whatsoever.
It is a great prerogatiue to be heire to a King or Emperour: but yet to be the childe of God, goes farre beyond it, euen aboue comparison. For, the sonne of the greatest Potentate may be the childe of wrath: but the childe of God by grace, hath Christ Iesus to be his eldest brother, with whom he is fellow heire in heauen; hee hath the holy Ghost also for his comforter, and the Kingdome of heauen for his euerlasting inheritance. And therefore wee must learne of Moses, from the bottome of our hearts, to prefer this one thing, To be the child of God, before all earthly things, either pleasures, riches, or any other prerogatiues whatsoeuer.
Now, more particularly in this fact of Moses note two circumstances: 1. The manner how: 2. The time when, he refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter.
Now, more particularly in this fact of Moses note two circumstances: 1. The manner how: 2. The time when, he refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter.
For the first; his refusal was not in word, but in deed: for, if we read the whole History of Moses, we shall not find, that either he spake to Pharaoh, or to his daughter, or to any other to this effect, that he would not be her heir, nor called her son; but we find that he did it in