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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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Lastly, this is a means to bring a man to make conscience of all sin, in thought, word, and deed, and in all his dealings, when he persuades himself to walk in the presence of God.
Lastly, this is a meanes to bring a man to make conscience of all sinne, in thought, word, and deede, and in all his dealings, when he perswades himselfe to walke in the presence of God.
When Joseph was allured to sin by his Mistress, his answer was, How shall I commit this great wickedness, and so sin against God? The bridle that restrained him,1 was the fear of that God in whose presence he walked: And because he walked with God, he would not walk with her in her wicked way: and because he kept a holy company with God, therefore ⟨p. 70⟩he would not keep her company, nor be allured by her temptations.
When Ioseph was allured to sinne by his Mistresse, his answere was, How shall I commit this great wickednesse, and so sin against God? The bridle that restrained him,1 was the feare of that God in whose presence he walked: And because hee walked with God, he would not walke with her in her wicked way: and because he kept a holy company with God, therefore ⟨p. 70⟩he would not keepe her company, nor be allured by her temptations.