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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
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.
The use whereof is to teach us in all extremities of danger ⟨p. 58⟩or distress; to learn patience: yea, though we be sure to die, yet (as Christ saith) To possess our souls with patience: For we have one,1 will hear the cause, and revenge our quarrel when we are gone: So that if we be patient we loose nothing; but if we be impatient we get nothing. Let us therefore hold our tongues: for, the wrong done to us crieth loud enough to God for revenge, who will hear it as assuredly as he did Abels. And thus we see how Abel spake then, even after he was dead.
The vse whereof is to teach vs in all extremities of danger ⟨p. 58⟩or distresse; to learne patience: yea, though we be sure to die, yet (as Christ saith) To possesse our soules with patience: For we haue one,1 wil heare the cause, and reuenge our quarrell when we are gone: So that if wee be patient wee loose nothing; but if wee be impatient wee get nothing. Let vs therefore hold our tongues: for, the wrong done to vs crieth loude enough to God for reuenge, who will heare it as assuredly as he did Abels. And thus wee see how Abell spake then, euen after he was dead.
The second point is, He speaks also yet: and that three ways.
The second point is, Hee speakes also yet: and that three wayes.