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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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Lastly, seeing we have this corruption of nature in us, we must keep our hearts with all diligence, and set watch and ward about them. So Solomon saith: Counterguard ⟨p. 589⟩thy heart my son, Proverbs 4.23. Why doth Solomon give this commandment? Surely, for special cause: for, every man while he lives on earth, is compassed about with his own corrupt nature; which like a home-borne traitor seeks to deliver the heart into the possession of Satan, and so to defraud God of his right. Again, the heart is mans Treasury, from whence come all actions good and bad: now, if it be well kept and guarded, the Lord will dwell in thy heart, and thence will proceed the issues of life: but, if it be left open, for corruption to enter and take place; then is it made an habitation for the devil.
Lastly, seeing wee haue this corruption of nature in vs, wee must keepe our hearts with all diligence, and set watch and ward about them. So Salomon saith: Counterguard ⟨p. 589⟩thy heart my sonne, Prouerbs 4.23. Why doth Salomon giue this commandement? Surely, for special cause: for, euery man while he liues on earth, is compassed about with his owne corrupt nature; which like a home-borne traytor seekes to deliuer the heart into the possession of Satan, and so to defraud God of his right. Againe, the heart is mans Treasury, from whence come all actions good and badde: now, if it bee well kept and guarded, the Lord will dwell in thy heart, and thence will proceede the issues of life: but, if it bee left open, for corruption to enter and take place; then is it made an habitation for the diuell.
If a city were besieged about by bloody enemies, the inhabitants thereof would set watch and ward in every place, to keep out the enemy: so, we having original sin, as a fierce enemy compassing us about, for to work our destruction some way or other, must labour to have our hearts guarded with a watch of grace, that our corruption may not let in Satan there to dwell, or to have any abode.