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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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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.
First, Abell 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 yeeres after: namely, by Moses first of all. I answer; When their Parents Adam and Eue had fallen, God gaue them (of his infinite goodnesse) a couenant of grace, that the seede of the woman should breake the serpents head: Genes. 3.15. Wee doubt not but our first Parents receiued this couenant, and beleeued the promise: and this their faith, taught them how to worship the true God aright.
You will say: thus Adam & Eve learned of God; but how came this to Cain & Abel. I answer: When they had been thus instructed of God, Adam as a faithful servant of God, taught the same religion, and delivered the same doctrine to his children: and by it they were taught, what, to whom, and in what manner to offer sacrifice. And thus they did it neither by Scripture, nor revelation, nor their own invention, but by the instruction of their Parents.
You wil say: thus Adam & Eue learned of God; but how came this to Cain & Abell. I answer: When they had beene thus instructed of God, Adam as a faithfull seruant of God, taught the same religion, and deliuered the same doctrine to his children: and by it they were taught, what, to whom, and in what manner to offer sacrifice. And thus they did it neither by Scripture, nor reuelation, nor their own inuention, but by the instruction of their Parents.