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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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The Judges Faith.
The Iudges Faith.
VERSE 32. And what shall I say more? For, the time would be too short for me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah: Also of David, and Samuel, and of the Prophets. Which through faith subdued Kingdoms, wrought righteousness, &c.
VERSE 32. And what shall I say more? For, the time would be too short for me to tell of Gedeon, of Barac, and of Samson, and of Iephte: Also of Dauid, and Samuel, and of the Prophets. Which through faith subdued Kingdomes, wrought righteousnesse, &c.
Hitherto, the Author of this Epistle hath set down unto us examples of faith, more at large. But from this verse to the end of this Chapter, he heaps up briefly together many examples of faith, one upon another. The reason whereof is; First, because the number of true believers which are mentioned in Scripture, is very great, and therefore he could not here stand to set them down in order one by one. Secondly, by handling all the examples at large, which the Author propoundeth, in this short Epistle, he should have seemed to have restrained the name and title of faith to a very few: for, all that are here named and commended for their faith, are but few, in comparison of all that truly believed in the old Testament. And therefore he heaps up the rest together, to intimate ⟨p. 493⟩that the number of believers, was more than he could record. And this he doth, by a Rhetorical preterition or passing over, called in Schools, Paralepsis; whereby matters are briefly dispatched and passed over, with the very naming only.