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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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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.
So then seeing this way of walking with God, is every way so excellent and so profitable, let us learn it not in judgement and knowledge only, to be able to talk of it (which is soon learned): but in conscience and practice (as dutiful children do before their parents, so) let us in a heavenly awe & a child-like reverence walk before God, labouring for a true persuasion of his presence and providence, to be always over us and our whole lives. The want hereof is the cause of all sin: And if we do thus walk with God, and so please him, as Enoch here did, then shall we be sure (though not after the same manner that Enoch was, yet) in soul first, and afterwards in soul & body both, to be translated into eternal life. But if we will not walk this way with Enoch in this life, let us never look to live in heaven with him; but assure our selves, that as the way of holiness is the way to glory, so the way of wickedness is the way to eternal perdition. And thus much of the second degree.