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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
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.
In the first, let us observe three special points of instruction.
In the first, let vs obserue three speciall points of instruction.
First, in that Enoch, before he was taken away, pleased God: let us learn, that whosoever looks to have his soul translated into heaven at his death, and both body & soul at the resurrection; must before hand in this life learn to please God: they must seek to please God, not when the time of the translation is come; but before, as here it is said Enoch did.
First, in that Henoch, before hee was taken away, pleased God: let vs learne, that whosoeuer lookes to haue his soule translated into heauen at his death, and both body & soule at the resurrection; must before hand in this life learne to please God: they must seeke to please God, not when the time of the translation is come; but before, as here it is saide Henoch did.
If any man demand, How shall I please God? My answer is this; Adam pleased GOD by keeping the Law: but now that is past, that power is lost: we must now please God by direction from the Gospel; namely, by faith in Christ and true repentance, together with a holy life (which must necessarily accompany true faith ⟨p. 66⟩and repentance) thus God is pleased. And this must we not defer till our death; but do it in our lives: nor can we look to be inheritors of the kingdom of glory as now Enoch is: unless before hand we be in the kingdom of grace, by pleasing God as Enoch did. It is lamentable, to see men not care for salvation till death, and then they begin to please God: but alas, God will not be so pleased. They begin to learn how to please God, when they have so long displeased him, as there is then fear they can never please him: but that man liveth and dieth with comfort, of whom it may be said as here of Enoch, before he was taken away he pleased God.