A09376:1643
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.
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, 1we are his generation. And to the Corinthians, he propoundeth a sentence of Menander; Evil words corrupt good manners. 1. Cor. 15. And to Titus, he allegeth Epimenides, a Cretan Poet; The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts▪ slow bellies, Titus 1.12.
Nowe, those bookes of Chronicles, were not parcelles of holy Scripture, but ciuill or ecclesiasticall Stories, like to our bookes of Martyrs and Chronicles. 2. Timothie chapter 3. verse 8, Saint Paul saith, Iannes and Iambres resisted Moses. Nowe, in the booke of Exodus, wee shall not finde the Sorcerers that withstoode Moses, once named. And Saint Iude maketh mention of a Prophecie of Enoch, Iude verse 14; which in all the olde Testament is not recorded: and it is like, that Moses was the first Penne-manne of holie Scripture. ⟨p. 530⟩Whence then had these Apostles these things? Answere. No doubt, the holy Ghost might reueale such things vnto them, though they had beene vnknowen in those times: but it is more probable, that the Apostles had them out of some Iewish Writers, or records then extant, and approued among the Iewes. So Paul, preaching to the Athenians, alledgeth the saying of Aratus an Athenian Poet: For,