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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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Fourthly, seeing God commends the seeds of true faith, for true faith indeed; This must encourage all men to use all good means to come by true faith and repentance. For though as yet thou hast but little knowledge, and therefore but little faith and repentance: yet if thou join hereto an endeavour to get more knowledge, and have also care to practice that which thou knowest; then will the Lord increase thy knowledge and thy small faith, till thou have sufficient, and in the mean time accept of thee as a true believer. And thus much for the measure of Rahabs faith.
Fourthly, seeing God commends the seedes of true faith, for true faith indeede; This must encourage all men to vse all good meanes to come by true faith and repentance. For though as yet thou hast but little knowledge, and therefore but little faith and repentance: yet if thou ioyne hereto an endeuour to get more knowledge, and haue also care to practice that which thou knowest; then will the Lord encrease thy knowledge and thy small faith, till thou haue sufficient, and in the meane time accept of thee as a true beleeuer. And thus much for the measure of Rahabs faith.
The second point to be considered is, the reward which Rahab received at the hands of Joshua, and the Israelites, for her faith; She perished not with them that obeyed not: that is, she with her family was preserved alive, when as Joshua destroyed all that lived in Jericho, young and old, man, woman, and child.
The second point to be considered is, the reward which Rahab receiued at the hands of Ioshua, and the Israelites, for her faith; Shee perished not with them that obeyed not: that is, she with her family was preserued aliue, when as Iosuah destroyed all that liued in Iericho, young and olde, man, woman, and childe.