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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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But the third sort of his actions done by him as a man, or as a Jew borne, they are both our instruction and imitation, and they are good directions for our actions: as, his obedience, his zeal, his patience, his humility, and all other virtues: Concerning all which he saith himself to us, Learn of me, 1for I am humble and lowly. And again, when he had washed his Apostles feet, he bad them learn of him to love one another: 2For (saith he) I have given you example that you should do even as I have done to you. These his examples are rules of direction to all men in the like case.
But the third sort of his actions done by him as a man, or as a Iew borne, they are both our instruction and imitation, and they are good directions for our actions: as, his obedience, his zeale, his patience, his humility, and all other vertues: Concerning all which he saith himselfe to vs, Learne of me, 1for I am humble and lowely. And againe, when he had washed his Apostles feete, he bad them learne of him to loue one another: 2For (saith he) I haue giuen you example that you should do euen as I haue done to you. These his examples are rules of direction to all men in the like case.