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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The meaning of these words is this: Moses cast with himself, that if he should yield to become heir to Pharaohs daughter, he must live with her, and please her in all things, and so altogether leave Gods Church, and people, and gods holy religion; which thing to do, he abhorred in his heart: and withal, he must leave and lose the eternal blessedness of Gods children, for the honours, & sinful pleasures of the Court, which were but momentany. These things considered, he chooseth rather to be in affliction and misery with the people of God, than upon these conditions, to live in Pharaohs Court, & to become his daughters son and heir.
THe meaning of these words is this: Moses cast with himselfe, that if hee should yield to become heire to Pharaohs daughter, he must liue with her, and please her in all things, and so altogether leaue Gods Church, and people, and gods holy religion; which thing to doe, he abhorred in his heart: and withall, hee must leaue and lose the eternall blessednesse of Gods children, for the honours, & sinnefull pleasures of the Court, which were but momentany. These things considered, hee chooseth rather to bee in affliction and misery with the people of God, than vpon these conditions, to liue in Pharaohs Court, & to becom his daughters sonne and heire.
And because this may seem a strange choice, the holy Ghost doth afterward render a reason hereof, which is this; Because Moses liked rather to enjoy the prerogatives of Gods Church (though it were in misery) than to enjoy any honour in a wicked Court, such as indeed Pharaohs was.
And because this may seeme a strange choice, the holy Ghost doth afterward render a reason hereof, which is this; Because Moses liked rather to inioy the prerogatiues of Gods Church (though it were in misery) than to enioy any honour in a wicked Court, such as indeede Pharaohs was.