A09376:1666
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.
This being the fruit of faith, To make a man able and willing to suffer any thing for Christs sake; we must hereby be moved to labour for true faith: for, tribulation may come; nay, some affliction will come on every child of God, more or less. Now, without faith we shall never be able to glorify God under the cross. The just must live by faith in this estate, Heb. 10.38; as, here they endure racking, burning, hewing asunder, &c. and all by faith.
This being the fruite of faith, To make a man able and willing to suffer any thing for Christs sake; we must heereby be moued to labour for true faith: for, tribulation may come; nay, some affliction will come on euery childe of God, more or lesse. Now, without faith wee shall neuer be able to glorifie God vnder the crosse. The iust must liue by faith in this estate, Heb. 10.38; as, here they endure racking, burning, hewing asunder, &c. and all by faith.
Secondly, out of all these sufferings here endured by ⟨p. 539⟩faith, note the mind and disposition of ungodly men towards Gods Church and people; they are most bitterly & bloodily bent against them: for, here they put in execution upon Gods children, whatsoever cruelty the devil could suggest into their hearts. And this hath been their disposition and behaviour, not only before Christs incarnation, but also ever since: as may appear by the manifold strange tortures, devised against Christians in the Primitive Church; and both then and since inflicted upon them. Behold it in the Church of Rome, especially in their late Inquisition: whereby, beside the cruel racking of the conscience by unjust inquiries, they put the Protestants to most cruel torments.
Secondly, out of all these sufferings heere endured by ⟨p. 539⟩