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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.
1. Man by sin hath displeased God.
1. Man by sinne hath displeased God.
2. God must be pleased again, else a man cannot be saved.
2. God must be pleased againe, else a man cannot be saued.
3. He that will please God, must please him in Christ the Mediator, else he cannot: therefore he that will please God, and be saved, must needs believe in Christ. And thus by this order it is impossible. We deny not, but in regard of Gods absolute power, he could save a man without faith; as he can lighten the world without the sun. But as (if he keep that order of nature, which his own wisdom hath appointed) it is impossible to give light to the world without the sun: so (if he keep that order for salvation, which his own Justice hath appointed) it is impossible to please God without faith in Christ. So then the meaning is laid down: and now appears the strength and force of the holy Ghosts argument;
3. He that will please God, must please him in Christ the Mediator, else he cannot: therefore he that wil please God, and be saued, must needes beleeue in Christ. And thus by this order it is impossible. We denie not, but in regard of Gods absolute power, hee could saue a man without faith; as hee can lighten the world without the sunne. But as (if he keepe that order of nature, which his owne wisedome hath appointed) it is impossible to giue light to the world without the sunne: so (if he keepe that order for saluation, which his own Iustice hath appointed) it is impossible to please God without faith in Christ. So then the meaning is laide downe: and now appeares the strength and force of the holy Ghosts argument;