A09376:1653
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.
Secondly, consider what manner of persons of place, and note, both in Church and common wealth, God takes from us by death, even in their best time: are they not such as excelled among us, for great wisdom and learning, and ⟨p. 535⟩for true piety and good conscience? now, howsoever this may seem but a small thing in the eyes of many; yet undoubtedly, it is a forerunner of Gods judgements: for, the righteous perish, and no man considereth it in heart; and merciful men are taken away, and no man understandeth that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. Isa. 57.1.
Secondly, consider what manner of persons of place, and note, both in Church and common wealth, God takes from vs by death, even in their best time: are they not such as excelled among vs, for great wisdom and learning, and ⟨p. 535⟩for true piety and good conscience? now, howsoeuer this may seeme but a small thing in the eyes of many; yet vndoubtedly, it is a forerunner of Gods iudgements: for, the righteous perish, and no man considereth it in heart; and mercifull men are taken away, and no man vnderstandeth that the righteous is taken away from the euill to come. Isa. 57.1.
Thirdly, God hath set his fearful judgements among us, and about us, war and sword in our neighbour nations; which also hath been oft shaken at us: also, famine and pestilence throughout our own Land, by intercourse and long continuance, Levit. 26. Now this is the truth of God, that, when God sends his judgements upon a people; if they do not repent, one judgement is but the forerunner of another more grievous and terrible than the former. But, little or no repentance appears among us; nay rather, we fall away more and more, and so stand still in danger of more fearful judgements.