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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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for the fowl of the heaven shall carry thy voice, and that which hath wings shall declare the matter. ⟨p. 57⟩So that whatsoever is plotted never so privily, or conspired in the secret closets of ungodly men, God knows it, and hath means enow to disclose it to the world. And in our daily experience God magnifieth himself mightily in revealing murders. For, bring the murderer before the dead corps, and usually it bleedeth, or giveth some other testimony, whereby it speaketh even as Abel's blood did, This is the murderer. Nay more: for, Abel's blood spake to God, but here even to men also.
for the fowle of the heauen shall carie thy voice, and that which hath wings shall declare the matter. ⟨p. 57⟩So that whatsoeuer is plotted neuer so priuily, or conspired in the secret closets of vngodly men, God knowes it, and hath meanes enow to disclose it to the world. And in our daily experience God magnifieth himselfe mightily in reuealing murders. For, bring the murtherer before the dead corps, and vsually it bleedeth, or giueth some other testimonie, whereby it speaketh euen as Abels bloud did, This is the murtherer. Nay more: for, Abels bloud spake to God, but here euen to men also.
And of this its hard to give any reason at all, but the secret and immediate hand of God, thereby showing himself to know all secret sins, & to be able to disclose them by strange means.
And of this its hard to giue any reason at all, but the secret and immediate hand of God, thereby shewing himselfe to know all secret sinnes, & to be able to disclose them by strange meanes.