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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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1. That Cain and Abel offered, that is, served God. 2. That they offered Sacrifices. ⟨p. 39⟩3. That Abel offered a better then Cain.
1. That Cain and Abell offred, that is, serued God. 2. That they offred Sacrifices. ⟨p. 39⟩3. That Abell offred a better then Cain.
The first point contains their service in general: the second, their service in particular: the third, the difference of their service▪ wherein especially will appear the excellency of Abel's faith.
The first point containes their seruice in generall: the second, their seruice in particular: the third, the difference of their seruice▪ wherein especially will appeare the excellencie of Abels faith.
First, Abel and Cain, the two first brethren in the world, offered sacrifice to the true God. How learned they this? for they had no Scripture, it was penned many years after: namely, by Moses first of all. I answer; When their Parents Adam and Eve had fallen, God gave them (of his infinite goodness) a covenant of grace, that the seed of the woman should break the serpents head: Genes. 3.15. We doubt not but our first Parents received this covenant, and believed the promise: and this their faith, taught them how to worship the true God aright.