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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 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.
For first, as for the Earthly Paradise, it was defaced by the flood; nor doe we read that euer man was in it but Adam. And some of their owne fables tell vs that Seth went to the gates of Paradise, when his father Adam was sicke, to get some Physicke out of Paradise for his father, but hee could not get in: Nor doe we finde any mention of it afterwards. So that it is likely in all reason, that it was defaced by the vniuersall flood.
And if they mean, he was translated into the Heavenly Paradise; I answer, thither can no unclean thing come: but a mortal body is unclean: and themselves say, he was taken away in his mortal body, and in it shall come again and die. Therefore Enoch having a mortal and unglorified body, cannot be in the highest heavens; into which nothing can enter which is not glorified and made immortal.
And if they meane, he was translated into the Heauenly Paradise; I answer, thither can no vncleane thing come: but a mortall body is vncleane: and themselues say, hee was taken away in his mortall body, and in it shal come againe and die. Therefore Henoch hauing a mortall and vnglorified bodie, cannot be in the highest heauens; into which nothing can enter which is not glorified and made immortall.
If they allege Ecclesiasticus 44.16. Enoch pleased God and was translated into Paradise, &c.