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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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Secondly, if it be impossible without faith to please God, then here we see the fond and foolish hypocrisy of the world, who will please God by other means: some think if they be glorious in the world, either for their wealth, or their wit, or their honour, or their authority, or their learning, they presently bring themselves into a fools Paradise; and because the world makes account of them, and they please themselves, therefore they think it certain, they must needs please God. But alas, though all the world admire them, and they be never so far in love with themselves, He that sits in heaven, laugheth them to scorn. For,1 not all the pomp and glory, nor all the millions and mountains of gold in the world, can please the Lord for one of the least of their many thousand sins, wherewith they have provoked him. Let these men ask Nebuchadnezzar if his pompous pride: or Ahithophel if his active head, and crafty wit: or Absalom if his golden locks: or Jezebel if her painted face and courtly attire: or Naball if his flocks of sheep: or the Philosophers, if their natural learning: if all of these, or any of these did ever please God: Nay alas, they all have found and felt, that without faith it is impossible to please God.
Secondly, if it be impossible without faith to please God, then here wee see the fond and foolish hypocrisie of the world, who will please God by other meanes: some thinke if they be glorious in the world, either for their wealth, or their wit, or their honour, or their authority, or their learning, they presently bring themselues into a fooles Paradise; and because the world makes account of them, and they please themselues, therefore they thinke it certaine, they must needes please God. But alas, though all the world admire them, and they be neuer so farre in loue with themselues, He that sits in heauen, laugheth them to scorne. For,1 not all the pompe and glory, nor all the millions and mountaines of gold in the world, can please the Lord for one of the least of their many thousand sinnes, wherewith they haue prouoked him. Let these men aske Nabuchadnezzer if his pompous pride: or Achitophel if his actiue head, and crafty wit: or Absalom if his golden lockes: or Iezabell if her painted face and courtly attire: or Naball if his flockes of sheepe: or the Philosophers, if their naturall learning: if all of these, or any of these did euer please God: Nay alas, they all haue found and felt, that without faith it is impossible to please God.