A09376:1672
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.
In this example of faith, we are taught to hold fast true religion, and to prefer the enjoying of it, before all the pleasures and commodities in the world; yea, before life it self. This point, Paul urgeth in sundry exhortations; saying, Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall: 1. Co. 10.12. forbidding us to preserve our outward peace, by communicating with idolaters. And again, Stand fast in the faith: 1. Cor. 16.13. Yea, this is one main point that Paul urgeth to Timothy, in both his Epistles; to keep faith, and a good conscience. And our Saviour Christ in one of his parables, Math. 13.44. compares the kingdom of heaven, to a treasure hid in the field; which, when a man findeth, he hideth it, & goes home & sells all he hath, to buy the field. Whereby he would teach us, that every ones duty, who would ⟨p. 542⟩enjoy the Kingdom of heaven, is this; In regard of it, to forgo and forsake all things else, esteeming them to be dross and dung, as Paul did, Philip. 3.8. What though a man had all the riches and pleasures of the world, & all things else for this life, that his heart could wish? yet, if he want religion, and a good conscience, all he hath is nothing: for, so he wants the love and favour of God, & shall lose his soul; for the ransom whereof, all the world can do nothing. Wherefore, we must hereby be admonished, to have more care to get and maintain true religion, and a good conscience, than any thing in the world besides.
In this example of faith, we are taught to hold fast true religion, and to preferre the enioying of it, before all the pleasures and commodities in the world; yea, before life it self. This point, Paul vrgeth in sundry exhortations; saying, Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heede lest hee fall: 1. Co. 10.12. forbidding vs to preserue our outward peace, by communicating with idolaters. And againe, Stand fast in the faith: 1. Cor. 16.13. Yea, this is one maine point that Paul vrgeth to Timothy, in both his Epistles; to keepe faith, and a good conscience. And our Sauiour Christ in one of his parables,