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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 second branch of this work is this; And the effusion of blood: that is, the sprinkling of the blood of the Lamb upon the posts of their houses, and upon the door cheeks; which was a token to the Israelites, that the destroying Angel should not strike the first borne of the Israelites either man or beast. In mans reason, this may seem to be a weak & simple means; yet God ordains it to preserve all the first borne among the Israelites. And thus the Lord useth to deal, that his people through the weakness of the means, might be brought to acknowledge God to be their protector and defender. When the Israelites were stung with the serpents,1 a man would have thought it had been the best way for their curing, to have given them cunning Surgeons; but the Lord ordains only a dead serpent of brass, which they must look up unto, and be cured.2 A weak means it was, and yet the Lord useth it; because he would have them to give all the glory unto ⟨p. 443⟩him, and not to ascribe the same either to themselves or to the means.
The second branch of this worke is this; And the effusion of bloud: that is, the sprinkling of the bloud of the Lambe vpon the posts of their houses, and vpon the doore cheeks; which was a token to the Israelites, that the destroying Angell should not strike the first borne of the Israelites either man or beast. In mans reason, this may seeme to be a weake & simple meanes; yet God ordaines it to preserue all the first borne among the Israelites. And thus the Lord vseth to deale, that his people through the weakenesse of the meanes, might be brought to acknowledge God to be their protectour and defender. When the Israelites were stung with the serpents,1 a man would haue thought it had beene the best way for their curing, to haue giuen them cunning Surgeons; but the Lord ordaines onely a dead serpent of brasse, which they must looke vp vnto, and be cured.2 A weake meanes it was, and yet the Lord vseth it; because hee would haue them to giue all the glory vnto ⟨p. 443⟩