A09376:1603
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
The Faith of the Judges and David.The Faith of the Iudges and Dauid.
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 fourth and fifth effects, which I will handle together, are these: Stopped the mouths of Lions: Quenched the violence of the fire.] For the fourth. Whereas some of these persons are said to have stopped the mouths of Lions, it is to be understood of Daniel ▪ as appeareth in the 6. Chapter of that book. For, Daniel (through the malice of others that incensed the Kings wrath against him) was cast into the den of hunger-bit Lions. But, Daniel even then believed in the Lord, and put all his trust in God; and for this cause, the Lord by his angel stopped the mouths of the Lions, and (as it were) sealed up their paws, that they could not hurt him.
The fourth and fift effects, which I will handle together, are these: Stopped the mouths of Lions: Quenched the violence of the fire.] For the fourth. Whereas some of these persons are said to haue stopped the mouthes of Lions, it is to be vnderstood of Daniel ▪ as appeareth in the 6. Chapter of that booke. For, Daniel (through the malice of others that incensed the Kings wrath against him) was cast into the denne of hunger-bit Lions. But, Daniel euen then beleeued in the Lord, and put all his trust in God; and for this cause, the Lord by his angel stopped the mouthes of the Lions, and (as it were) sealed vp their pawes, that they could not hurt him.
The fifth effect, in quenching the violence of the fire, must be understood of Shadrach▪ Meshach, and Abednego, the companions of Daniel: which three (as we may read Dan. 3.) refused to worship the golden image, which Nebuchadnezzar had set up. For which cause, they were cast into an hot burning Oven; but, they put their trust in God, and clave fast unto him in obedience, even to the hazard of their lives. Whereupon, the Lord by his omnipotent power, did most miraculously preserve them, by staying the rage of the fire, contrary to the nature thereof, that it had no power over their bodies; nay, it did not burn the hair of their heads, nor cause their garments to smell. And therefore they are said, to have quenched the violence of it, because it had no power over them, though it burned most fiercely; but was to them, as though it had been quite put out and quenched.