A09376:1629
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 widow and the Shunamite.The faith of the widowe and the Shunamite.
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.
But some will say, This last effect of faith, may seem to cross the Scripture else-where; which saith, that Christ is the first fruits of them that sleep. 1How then could these that were before Christs incarnation, be restored from death to life? Answer. Saint Pauls meaning is this; that Christ is the first of all those that rose from death to life, to die no more, but to live for ever. So, indeed, Christ is the first fruits of them that sleep: for, he rose to live for ever. As for these two, and some other, mentioned both in the old Testament and the new, that were raised from death to life, they rose not from the sleep of death, to live for ever, but to die again.
But some wil say, This last effect of faith, may seeme to crosse the Scripture else-where; which saith, that Christ is the first fruites of them that sleepe. 1How then could these that were before Christs incarnation, be restored from death to life? Answer. Saint Pauls meaning is this; that Christ is the first of all those that rose from death to life, to die no more, but to liue for euer. So, indeede, Christ is the first fruites of them that sleepe: for, he rose to liue for euer. As for these two, and some other, mentioned both in the olde Testament and the new, that were raised from death to life, they rose not from the sleepe of death, to liue for euer, but to die againe.
In this tenth fruit of faith, all Parents may learn their duty towards their children, in the case of sickness or such like. They must follow the example of these two godly women, and labour especially to show forth their faith in such duties as God requireth in such a case: to wit, they must humble themselves for their own sins, and for the sins of their children and family; praying earnestly to God for the pardon of them (for GOD may visit the iniquity of the Parents upon the children in bodily judgements) and entreating the Lord to restore them to health and liberty: and withal, they must use the ordinary lawful means of recovery in physic and such like, praying to God for a blessing thereupon.