A09376:1613
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 sixth effect of their faith, is in these words: Escaped the edge of the sword. The words in the original, are thus: Escaped the mouth of the sword: which is the Hebrew phrase in the old Testament, and here followed by the Pen-man of this Epistle; and before, where he calleth the word of God a two mouthed sword, Heb. 4.12: hereby meaning (as it is translated) a two edged sword. This effect must be understood of two worthy Prophets, Elijah and Elisha: ⟨p. 516⟩for Elijah, we may read, that when he had slain Baals Priests (1. Kings 19.1.) Jezebel the Queen threatened to kill him▪ which he hearing, fled into the wilderness, and thence was led to Mount Horeb, and there escaped by means of his faith. And for Elisha, we may read, that when he disclosed the King of Syria his counsel to the King of Israel (2. Kings 6.) he was compassed about in Dothan, the city where he lay, with a huge host of Assyrians; but, praying to the Lord, the Lord smote the host with blindness, and so the Prophet led them in safety to Samaria. So then, the meaning of this effect, is, that when these servants of God were in distress, & danger of death, they denied themselves, and their own help, & by faith relied upon God unfeignedly, from the bottom of their hearts; & so found deliverance with God, from the peril of death.
The sixt effect of their faith, is in these words: Escaped the edge of the sword. The words in the originall, are thus: Escaped the mouth of the sword: which is the Hebrew phrase in the olde Testament, and heere followed by the Pen-man of this Epistle; and before, where he calleth the word of God a two mouthed sword, Heb. 4.12: hereby meaning (as it is translated) a two edged sword. This effect must be vnderstood of two worthy Prophets, Elias and Elizeus: ⟨p. 516⟩for Elias, wee may reade, that when he had slaine Baals Priests (