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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.
By faith, is meant here the same faith as afore: namely, true saving faith in the Messiah. And without this saving faith, It is impossible to please God.
By faith, is meant here the same faith as afore: namely, true sauing faith in the Messias. And without this sauing faith, It is impossible to please God.
Impossible how? not in regard of the absolute, infinite, and indeterminable power of God, which hath no limits, ⟨p. 71⟩but his own will: but in regard of that order of the causes and means of salvation set down by God in his word: which is this;
Impossible how? not in regard of the absolute, infinite, and indeterminable power of God, which hath no limits, ⟨p. 71⟩but his owne will: but in regard of that order of the causes and meanes of saluation set downe by God in his word: which is this;
1. Man by sin hath displeased God.
1. Man by sinne hath displeased God.