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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, having laid this ground, the holy Ghost frames his argument, to prove that Enoch was taken away by faith: and it consisteth of many degrees of evidence.
Secondly, hauing laide this ground, the holy Ghost frames his argument, to proue that Henoch was taken away by faith: and it consisteth of many degrees of euidence.
For before he was taken away, he was reported of that he had pleased God.
1But without faith, it is impossible to please God.
- 1Verse 6:
The degrees of the argument are these; 1. God himself took Enoch away. 2. Before he was taken away, he pleased God. ⟨p. 65⟩3. But without faith no man can please God.