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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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The fourth & last point is the matter, whereof the world was made: the Text saith: The things that we see, that is, all the world, were made of things never seen: that is, of a flat nothing, which here is said not to be seen, or not to appear; because how can that appear or be seen, which is not? So the meaning is, when there was nothing in the world, then God made the world to be: This is the strangest thing of all in this fourth effect: For it is not so strange that the world should be created in excellent order; or that God should make it by his word: as that he should make it of nothing. ⟨p. 35⟩Reason denies it, Philosophy disputes against it as absurd, and never will yield unto it: but here is the power of faith manifest, for it makes us believe and know it is so.
The fourth & last point is the matter, whereof the world was made: the Text saith: The things that we see, that is, all the world, were made of things neuer seene: that is, of a flat nothing, which here is said not to be seene, or not to appeare; because how can that appeare or be seene, which is not? So the meaning is, when there was nothing in the world, then God made the world to be: This is the strangest thing of all in this fourth effect: For it is not so strange that the world should be created in excellent order; or that God should make it by his word: as that hee should make it of nothing. ⟨p. 35⟩Reason denies it, Phylosophie disputes against it as absurd, and neuer will yeeld vnto it: but here is the power of faith manifest, for it makes vs beleeue and know it is so.
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