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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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Thus we see that Cain and Abel offered.
Thus we see that Cain and Abell offered.
Now secondly, what offered they? sacrifices. Sacrifices were used in the worship of God for two ends. 1. When a sacrifice was offered, especially of beasts, when a man saw the blood of the beasts poured out it put him in mind of his own sins, and the desert of them, & taught him to say thus: Eve as this creature is here slain, & his blood distils & drops away▪ so my sins deserve that my blood should be s••ed▪ and my soul be drenched in hell for ever. This creature can die but one death, for it sinneth not; but my sins deserve both the 1. and 2. death.
Now secondly, what offred they? sacrifices. Sacrifices were vsed in the worship of God for two ends. 1. When a sacrifice was offred, especially of beasts, when a man saw the bloud of the beasts poured out it put him in mind of his own sins, and the desert of them, & taught him to say thus: Eue as this creature is here slain, & his bloud distils & drops away▪ so my sins deserue that my bloud should be s••ed▪ and my soule be drenched in hell for euer. This creature can die but one death, for it sinneth not; but my sins deserue both the 1. and 2. death.
Secondly, sacrifices served to put the•• in mind of the Messiah to come: and the slaying of the beasts showed them how the Messiah should shed his blood, & give his life for the irs of the people These are the 2. principal ends of sacrifices, & for these 2. ends did Cain & Abel offer; Cain in hypocrisy