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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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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.
Adam was the first father, & father of vs all; let all then follow him in this practice: & if we follow him in one, follow him in both. Diuerse wil be as careful for their bodies & for their callings as Adam was: but how few are as carefull to teach them religion for the prefermēt of their soules to life eternall? But parents must haue care of both these: else they shal answer for their child at the day of iudgemēt: & though he perish in his own sin, yet his bloud wil God require at the Fathers hands. For God made him a father in his room, and he discharged not the duty of a father vnto their child.
Secondly, in that Cain offered as well as Abel; Hence we learn diverse instructions.
Secondly, in that Cain offered as well as Abell; Hence we learne diuerse instructions.
1. It is a common opinion, that if a man walk duly and truly in his calling, doing no man harm, but giving every man his own, and so do all his life long, God will receive him, and save his soul: but the truth is this; If men do thus it is good and commendable, and they must be exhorted to continue: but if they stand upon this for salvation, they cast away their souls: For mark here, Cain was a man that walked in an honest calling: and more then that, he took pains, & laboured in it (which all men do not which have honest callings): And more then all these, when Abel offered, he came and worshipped God also; and he did outwardly in such sort, as no man could blame him, but only God that saw his heart: And for all this, yet is he a wicked Cain, and