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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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Now followeth the end of both these actions, in these words: Lest he that destroyed the first borne should touch them. Let us examine the words in order: First, by the destroyer, is meant the Angel of God (as we may see in the Story, Exod. 12.19): who at midnight smote all the first borne of Egypt both of man and beast. Where by the way we may take a view of the wonderful power and strength of Gods Angels, and also of their admirable swiftness and readiness in doing the will of God, that in one night even at midnight, one of them could pass through the Land of Egypt, and kill all the first borne of man and beast, in every place of the Egyptians. The like we may see in the destruction of Sennacherib's host,1 by one Angel in one night.
Now followeth the end of both these actions, in these words: Lest he that destroyed the first borne should touch them. Let vs examine the words in order: First, by the destroyer, is meant the Angell of God (as wee may see in the Storie, Exod. 12.19): who at midnight smote all the first borne of Egypt both of man and beast. Where by the way wee may take a view of the wonderfull power and strength of Gods Angels, and also of their admirable swiftnesse and readinesse in doing the will of God, that in one night euen at midnight, one of them could passe through the Land of Egypt, and kill all the first borne of man and beast, in euerie place of the Egyptians. The like we may see in the destruction of Senacheribs host,1 by one Angell in one night.
The first borne: that is, both of men and beasts. So it is in the Story,