A09376:1726
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.
The holy Ghost having set down at large a worthy and notable Catalogue of examples of faith in sundry believers, that lived from the beginning of the world, to the time of the Maccabees, doth now for a further commendation of their faith, rehearse the same things that before he had said in the 2. and 13. verses of this chapter. In saying, that by faith, they all received good report; his meaning is, that they did believe in the true Messiah, and looked for salvation in him alone, whereupon they were approved of God himself; who gave testimony hereof, partly by his word, and partly by his spirit in their consciences, and partly by his Church▪ by all which ⟨p. 564⟩they were commended, and assured to be Gods servants. And yet, notwithstanding this good report, they received not the promise; that is, the promise of Christs incarnation in their days. They received Christ truly by faith, and so saw his day; but, his actual incarnation in the flesh, they lived not to see.
THe holy Ghost hauing set down at large a worthie and notable Catalogue of examples of faith in sundry beleeuers, that liued from the beginning of the world, to the time of the Maccabees, doth now for a further commendation of their faith, rehearse the same things that before he had said in the 2. and 13. verses of this chapter. In saying, that by faith, they all receiued good report; his meaning is, that they did beleeue in the true Messias, and looked for saluation in him alone, whereupon they were approoued of God himselfe; who gaue testimonie hereof, partly by his word, and partly by his spirit in their consciences, and partly by his Church▪ by all which ⟨p. 564⟩they were commended, and assured to be Gods seruants. And yet, notwithstanding this good report, they receiued not the promise; that is, the promise of Christs incarnation in their daies. They receiued Christ truely by faith, and so saw his day; but, his actual incarnation in the flesh, they liued not to see.