A09376:1642
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
Believers under the Maccabees.Beleeuers vnder the Maccabees.
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.
Answer. We may judge, that he gathered it out of the Stories and Records of men: which (howsoever they be not now extant) yet in his days in the Primitive Church were extant, known, and approved. Neither must this seem strange unto us: for, the spirit of God, in the old Testament speaking of men, hath oftentimes reference and relation therein to humane Writings; as this phrase (The rest of the acts of such and such, are they not written in the books of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah and Israel) so often used in the books of Kings and Chronicles, doth evidently declare.
Answere. Wee may iudge, that hee gathered it out of the Stories and Records of men: which (howsoeuer they bee not now extant) yet in his dayes in the Primitiue Church were extant, knowen, and approoued. Neither must this seeme strange vnto vs: for, the spirit of God, in the olde Testament speaking of men, hath oftentimes reference and relation therein to humane Writings; as this phrase (The rest of the actes of such and such, are they not written in the bookes of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iuda and Israell) so often vsed in the bookes of Kings and Chronicles, doth euidently declare.
Now, those books of Chronicles, were not parcels of holy Scripture, but civill or ecclesiastical Stories, like to our books of Martyrs and Chronicles. 2. Timothy chapter 3. verse 8, Saint Paul saith, Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses. Now, in the book of Exodus, we shall not find the Sorcerers that withstood Moses, once named. And Saint Jude maketh mention of a Prophecy of Enoch, Jude verse 14; which in all the old Testament is not recorded: and it is like, that Moses was the first Pen-man of holy Scripture. ⟨p. 530⟩Whence then had these Apostles these things? Answer. No doubt, the holy Ghost might reveal such things unto them, though they had been unknown in those times: but it is more probable, that the Apostles had them out of some Jewish Writers, or records then extant, and approved among the Jews. So Paul, preaching to the Athenians, allegeth the saying of Aratus an Athenian Poet: For,