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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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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⟩he remaineth in glory, expecting the generall resurrection, and the full glorification of all Gods elect.
Out of this translation of Enoch, we may learn:
Out of this translation of Henoch, we may learne:
First, that there is a life everlasting prepared of God for his children, wherein they shall live for ever both in soul & body; for hereof hath God given us most evident testimonies, both here in Enoch, and afterward in Elijah: Elijah a Jew,1 Enoch none: Enoch in the first world, Elijah in the second: Enoch before the flood, Elijah after: Enoch uncircumcised, Elijah circumcised: Enoch married, Elijah unmarried: and both were assumed into heaven in soul and body, and are there to this day, and tarry for us till the end of the world; assuring us that our souls live for ever: & that our bodies, though they die, shall rise again to life. Here therefore we have a notable ground for that last (but not the least) article of our faith, where we profess to believe life everlasting.