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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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Thirdly, they argue out of Saint John: No man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended; the son of man, which is in heaven. But say they, this son of man is not Enoch, but Christ: therefore none but Christ ascended bodily into heaven.
Thirdly, they argue out of Saint Iohn: No man hath ascended into heauen, but he that descended; the sonne of man, which is in heauen. But say they, this sonne of man is not Henoch, but Christ: therefore none but Christ ascended bodily into heauen.
Answer. That place is not meant of corporal ascending, but of understanding mystical and heavenly things: no man ascendeth to the full knowledge of heavenly Mysteries, but Christ alone, who descended from heaven from the bosom of his Father.
Answer. That place is not meant of corporall ascending, but of vnderstanding mysticall and heauenly things: no man ascendeth to the full knowledge of heauenly Misteries, but Christ alone, who descended from heauen from the bosome of his Father.
And thus we see, this opinion hath no strength of Argument to rest upon: but we may safely hold (notwithstanding any thing that can be said against it) that Enoch was translated both in body and soul. And if any man yet doubt, how he could be taken up in body before he was glorified; We are to know, though he died not, yet his body was changed, as those men shall be,1 which shall be found alive at the last day.
And thus we see, this opinion hath no strength of Argument to rest vpon: but wee may safely hold (notwithstanding any thing that can be said against it) that Henoch was translated both in body and soule. And if any man yet doubt, how he could be takē vp in body before he was glorified; Wee are to know, though he died not, yet his body was changed, as those men shall be,