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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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Secondly, afflictions serve to humble Gods children, Leviticus 26.41. So the Church of God speaketh, I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, Micah 7.9.
Secondly, afflictions serue to humble Gods children, Leuiticus 26.41. So the Church of God speaketh, I will beare the wrath of the Lord, because I haue sinned against him, Micah 7.9.
Thirdly, they serve to wean the people of God, and to drive them from the love of this world: for, if men might always live in ease, they would make their heaven upon earth; which may not be. And herein GOD dealeth with his children like a Nurse; when she will wean her child, she lays some bitter thing upon the paps head, to make the child to loathe the pap: so the Lord, to draw our hearts from the world, and to cause us to love and seek after heaven and heavenly things, he makes us to taste of the bitterness of affliction in t•is world. Fourthly, afflictions fer•e to make Gods children to go out of themselves to seek sincerely unto GOD, and to rely only upon him: which in prosperity they will not do. This, Paul confesseth of himself and others: We (saith he) received the sentence of death in our selves, because we should not trust in our selves, but in God: 2. Corinthians chapter 1. verse 9. So good King Jehoshaphat, when he was compassed of his enemies, He cried to the Lord, and said; Lord we know not what to do, but our eyes are towards thee: 2. Chronicles, chapter 20. verse 12. Yea, the rebellious Jews are hereby driven to seek the Lord, whom in prosperity they forsook: as we may see at large, Psal. 107.6.12.13.19