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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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Secondly, in this example we learn, that God is not tied to the order of Nature. The order which God established & set down concerning all men after Adams fall is this: Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return. 1By virtue of this decree, all men are to die, as sure as they once live; and when that time appointed by God is come, all the world cannot save one man, but accordingly die he must. But here notwithstanding we see, God that tied man to this order, is not tied himself. Enoch and Elijah are exempted, they die not, their bodies never turned to dust; such is the power of God over the order of Nature, in all natural actions.
Secondly, in this example we learne, that God is not tied to the order of Nature. The order which God established & set downe concerning all men after Adams fall is this: Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou returne. 1By vertue of this decree, all men are to die, as sure as they once liue; and when that time appointed by God is come, all the world cannot saue one man, but accordingly die he must. But here notwithstanding we see, God that tied man to this order, is not tied himselfe. Enoch and Elias are exempted, they die not, their bodies neuer turned to dust; such is the power of God ouer the order of Nature, in all naturall actions.
Thirdly, whereas the Papists hold, that all the Fathers who died before Christ, were in Limbus (a place out of heaven) and came not in heaven till Christ fetched them thence, and carried them with him at his ascension; Here we learn it is most false & forged. For here we see, Enoch, and afterwards Elijah were in heaven both in body and soul, many hundred years before Christs Incarnation: whereby (as also by many other evidences that might be brought) it is apparent, that Limbus Patrum is nothing but a devise of that