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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 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.
If they alleadge Ecclesiasticus 44.16. Enoch pleased God and was translated into Paradise, &c.
I answer, we need not call in question the authority of the book, nor answer that it is not in the Canon of faith. For the text is corrupted wilfully by some that showed them selves in the Latin too bold with the text, both there and elsewhere: for in the Greek original, there is no such matter as Paradise, but the words are these: Enoch pleased God, and was translated for an example of repentance to the generations. And thus we see, this opinion is every way erroneous, and hath no shadow of reason in it, nor for it.
I answer, we neede not call in question the authoritie of the booke, nor answer that it is not in the Canon of faith. For the text is corrupted wilfully by some that shewed thē selues in the Latine too bold with the text, both there and elsewhere: for in the Greeke originall, there is no such matter as Paradise, but the words are these: Enoch pleased God, and was translated for an example of repentance to the generations. And thus we see, this opinion is euery way erroneous, and hath no shadow of reason in it, nor for it.