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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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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.
The second opinion is, that Henoch was taken vp in soule and body into Paradise (some say, the heauenly, but the most the earthly Paradise) and there liues in his mortall and corruptible body, and must afore the last day come againe in his body with Elias, and fight against Antichrist: and when by their doctrine they haue ouercome him, hee shall by violence kill them, and so they shall ⟨p. 60⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 61⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 62⟩die Martyrs: And this is the generall receiued opinion of the most Papists. But it is a meere conceit, and a dreame, and there is no ground for it: but, good argument against it.
For first, as for the Earthly Paradise, it was defaced by the flood; nor do we read that ever man was in it but Adam. And some of their own fables tell us that Seth went to the gates of Paradise, when his father Adam was sick, to get some Physic out of Paradise for his father, but he could not get in: Nor do we find any mention of it afterwards. So that it is likely in all reason, that it was defaced by the universal flood.