A09376:1491
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.
Again, the waters passed not away as at an ebb, but stood as walls on each side of the host of Israel, both on the right hand and on the left: both which show plainly,1 there was no vantage taken by the ebbing and flowing of the water (as ungodly Atheists do cavil, deriding Gods works to their own destruction) but a mighty & miraculous ⟨p. 458⟩work of God, first making the waters stand like two walls, and then making the earth under it firm & dry, contrary to nature in them both.
Againe, the waters passed not away as at an ebbe, but stoode as walls on each side of the hoast of Israell, both on the right hand and on the left: both which shew plainely,1 there was no vantage taken by the ebbing and flowing of the water (as vngodly Atheists do cauill, deriding Gods works to their own destructiō) but a mighty & miraculous ⟨p. 458⟩work of God, first making the waters stand like two walls, and then making the earth vnder it firme & dry, contrary to nature in them both.
- 1Exod. 14.•• ▪
The 2. circumstance is, concerning the time when they passed through; even, then when the Egyptians assaying to do the same, were drowned. Mark the words; for the thing is strange. The Egyptians come armed after the Israelites, with a huge great Army. Now, the Israelites they take into the sea; and the Egyptians seeing them, stand not still upon the bank, but adventure after them, not by ship, but the same way that the Israelites took before them: but yet without any warrant or commandment from God: so great was their malice against them; & yet a man would have thought they durst never have adventured into the sea after them, especially as they did.