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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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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 ⟨p. 41⟩that is all that the word of God gives him, 1. John. 3.12. Then it is manifest, that to walk in a mans calling justly and uprightly, doing no man harm, will not serve the turn. Cain did it, and yet was cursed: we must then go further then Cain, else we shall go with Cain to the place where he is.
1. It is a common opinion, that if a man walke duly and truly in his calling, doing no man harme, but giuing euery man his owne, and so doe all his life long, God will receiue him, and saue his soule: 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 vpon this for saluation, they cast away their soules: For mark here, Cain was a man that walkt in an honest calling: and more then that, he tooke paines, & laboured in it (which all men doe not which haue honest callings): And more then all these, when Abell offred, hee came and worshipped God also; and hee did outwardly in such sort, as no man could blame him, but onely God that saw his heart: And for all this, yet is he a wicked Cain, and