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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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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.
So then seeing this way of walking with God, is euery way so excellent and so profitable, let vs learne it not in iudgement and knowledge onely, to be able to talke of it (which is soone learned): but in conscience and practice (as dutifull children doe before their parents, so) let vs in a heauenly awe & a child-like reuerence walke before God, labouring for a true perswasion of his presence and prouidence, to be alwayes ouer vs and our whole liues. The want hereof is the cause of all sinne: And if we doe thus walke with God, and so please him, as Henoch here did, then shall wee be sure (though not after the same manner that Henoch was, yet) in soule first, and afterwards in soule & body both, to be translated into eternall life. But if we will not walke this way with Henoch in this life, let vs neuer looke to liue in heauen with him; but assure our selues, that as the way of holinesse is the way to glory, so the way of wickednesse is the way to eternall perdition. And thus much of the second degree.
But without faith it is impossible to please God.