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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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But what did this Sacrament of the Pass-over signify? Answer. It did signify a double deliverance; one temporal, as well from the destroying Angel, as also from the bondage of Egypt: The other spiritual, from the curse of the Law, and from the wrath of God. The first is plain, where the Lord saith:1 The blood being sprinkled upon the door posts, shall be a token for you that I will pass over you. ⟨p. 434⟩And verse 17. Ye shall keep the feast of unleavened bread: for that same day will I bring your Armies out of the Land of Egypt. And touching the second, that it was a sign of a more heavenly deliverance from the bondage of sin & Satan, Paul telleth us plainly, when as he saith, Christ our Pass-over is sacrificed for us: 2giving us to understand, that the Paschal Lamb in the old Testament, was undoubtedly a true sign of the true Paschal Lamb Christ Jesus: to which purpose John Baptist saith; Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world: John 1.29: Where he calleth Christ the Lamb of God, making there an opposition between him and the Paschal Lamb of Moses, which may be called the Paschal Lamb of men; for herein also they differ: The Paschal Lamb was separated by men, though by Gods appointment; but Christ the true Lamb of God, was set a part before all worlds by God the Father. And thus we see briefly what this Pass-over is. It followeth.
But what did this Sacrament of the Passe-ouer signifie? Answer. It did signifie a double deliuerance; one temporall, as well from the destroying Angell, as also from the bondage of Egypt: The other spirituall, from the curse of the Law, and from the wrath of God. The first is plaine, where the Lord saith:1 The bloud being sprinkled vpon the doore posts, shall be a token for you that I will passe ouer you. ⟨p. 434⟩And verse 17. Ye shall keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: for that same day will I bring your Armies out of the Land of Egypt. And touching the second, that it was a signe of a more heauenly deliuerance from the bondage of sinne & Satan, Paul telleth vs plainely, when as hee saith, Christ our Passe-ouer is sacrificed for vs: