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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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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,1 which shall be found aliue at the last day.
The second opinion is, that Enoch was taken up in soul and body into Paradise (some say, the heavenly, but the most the earthly Paradise) and there lives in his mortal and corruptible body, and must afore the last day come again in his body with Elijah, and fight against Antichrist: and when by their doctrine they have overcome him, he shall by violence kill them, and so they shall ⟨p. 60⟩[…] ⟨p. 61⟩[…] ⟨p. 62⟩die Martyrs: And this is the general received opinion of the most Papists. But it is a mere conceit, and a dream, and there is no ground for it: but, good argument against it.