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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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Out of this coherence we may learn in a word, that perseverance in faith is a matter not of ordinary necessity nor of mean excellency, to the urging whereof the author of this epistle useth so large & so forcible an exhortation; in so much as, whereas ordinary exhortations occupy the room of one or some few verses, this is continued through divers chapters.
Out of this coherence we may learn in a word, that perseuerance in faith is a matter not of ordinarie necessitie nor of mean excellēcy, to the vrging wherof the author of this epistle vseth so large & so forcible an exhortation; in so much as, whereas ordinary exhortations occupy the roome of one or some few verses, this is continued through diuers chapters.
The parts of this whole chapter are two:
1. A general description of Faith from the first verse to the fourth.
1. A generall description of Faith from the first verse to the fourth.