A09376:261
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
Seeing therefore both these opinions are to be refused, let us in few words set down the true and Orthodoxall judgement of the Church, out of the Scriptures in the old and new testament. And it is this: That this holy man, by Gods special favour to him, was assumed into heaven both body and soul; his soul being perfectly sanctified, and his body glorified in the instant of his translation: and there ⟨p. 63⟩he remaineth in glory, expecting the general resurrection, and the full glorification of all Gods elect.
Seeing therefore both these opinions are to bee refused, let vs in few words set downe the true and Orthodoxall iudgement of the Church, out of the Scriptures in the olde and new testament. And it is this: That this holy man, by Gods special fauour to him, was assumed into heauen both body and soule; his soule beeing perfectly sanctified, and his body glorified in the instant of his translation: and there ⟨p. 63⟩