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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
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.
Many, indeed, get great applause in the world, which little regard true faith; but in the end, this their glory and applause, will be their shame: for, They that honour me, will I honour, saith the Lord: but he that despiseth me, shall be despised, 1. Sam. 2.30.
Many, indeede, get great applause in the world, which little regard true faith; but in the ende, this their glory and applause, will be their shame: for, They that honour me, will I honour, saith the Lord: but he that despiseth me, shal be despised, 1. Sam. 2.30.
Lastly, whereas the holy Ghost saith, That all these ⟨p. 565⟩worthy men obtained testimony of God, and yet received not the promise. We are hereby taught, that we which now live in the Church, are much more bound in conscience to believe, than they that lived in the old Testament. For, we have received the promise of Christs incarnation: They received it not, and yet believed. Wherefore, in the fear of God let us labour for true faith. But some will say, What should we hear so much of faith? we do all believe. Answ. Indeed, we say so much with our mouths: but, it is a rare thing to find true and sound faith in the heart; for, gross and palpable ignorance abounds every where, and yet men will needs be good believers which is a thing impossible: for, how should faith be without knowledge? And, as men are ignorant, so they have no care to learn, nor to get knowledge, that so they might come by true faith. Their hearts are wholly taken up with the world, for matters of profit and delight; that they can spare no time, to seek for this precious gift of faith. Again, many have knowledge, with whom true faith is rare: for, faith purifies the heart, it is joined with a good conscience, and shows it self by obedience, through love. Now (to leave the heart to God) where almost is the man, that walks answerable to his knowledge? May we not truly say of many, that as the word cometh in at the one ear, it goeth out at the other? And, among those which learn, and bear away something, there is little care to practice it in life.