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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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He, that will be saved and come to heaven, must first please God: But without faith it is impossible to please God. Therefore without faith no man can be saved nor come in heaven: and by consequent, therefore Enoch being taken into heaven, must needs be taken away by faith.
Hee, that will be saued and come to heauen, must first please God: But without faith it is impossible to please God. Therefore without faith no man can be saued nor come in heauen: and by consequent, therefore Henoch being taken into heauen, must needes be taken away by faith.
Now the use of this Canon, rightly understood, is manifold and of great profit.
Now the vse of this Canon, rightly vnderstood, is manifold and of great profit.
First, here we learn that faith is simply and absolutely necessary to salvation, and most necessary of all other gifts and graces of God whatsoever. And though many be required, yet amongst all holy graces this is the principal, and more necessary in some respects, then any other. For howsoever hope, and love, and zeal, and many other graces of God are required, to make the state of a Christian complete; and though they all have their several commendations in the word: Yet, of none of them all is it said in the whole Scripture, as it is here said ⟨p. 72⟩of faith, that without it, it is impossible to please God: And no marvel, for it is the root and ground of all other graces, and gives them their life and being: for therefore doth a man fear God, therefore doth he love God, therefore is he zealous for Gods glory, because he believeth that God loveth him in Christ the redeemer.