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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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So must thou do with the children which God hath given thee. 1. Provide for them carefully till they be of age, take •eed they miscarry not any way for want of things needful. ⟨p. 40⟩2. So bring them up, as that they may be apt to live in some godly calling whereby to serve God, and to do good in his Church: and that calling thou must appoint him, according to the fitness of his gifts. Adam appointed them not both one calling but diverse callings, according to the diversity of their gifts: and thou must see it be a lawful and honest calling; for so are both these. Then 3. (the greatest matter of all these) teach them religion, and the true manner of fearing & worshipping God; that as by the two first, thy child may live well in this world, so by this he may be made an heir of the kingdom of heaven.
So must thou do with the children which God hath giuen thee. 1. Prouide for them carefully till they be of age, take •eed they miscarie not any way for want of things needfull. ⟨p. 40⟩2. So bring them vp, as that they may be apt to liue in some godly calling whereby to serue God, and to doe good in his Church: and that calling thou must appoint him, according to the fitnesse of his gifts. Adam appointed them not both one calling but diuerse callings, according to the diuersity of their gifts: and thou must see it be a lawfull and honest calling; for so are both these. Then 3. (the greatest matter of all these) teach them religion, and the true manner of fearing & worshipping God; that as by the two first, thy child may liue well in this world, so by this he may be made an heire of the kingdome of heauen.
Adam was the first father, & father of us all; let all then follow him in this practice: & if we follow him in one, follow him in both. Diverse will be as careful for their bodies & for their callings as Adam was: but how few are as careful to teach them religion for the preferment of their souls to life eternal? But parents must have care of both these: else they shall answer for their child at the day of judgement: & though he perish in his own sin, yet his blood will God require at the Fathers hands. For God made him a father in his room, and he discharged not the duty of a father unto their child.