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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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That is, not so much that there is a God; for that we are taught by the very light of Nature: But that this God, whom in Christ he labours to know, and come near, is the true and only God.
That is, not so much that there is a God; for that wee are taught by the very light of Nature: But that this God, whom in Christ he labours to know, and come neere, is the true and onely God.
This is a notable point in Christian religion, to believe, that God is God indeed: not a fiction, a shadow, or imaginary God, but God indeed. For it is the scope of the first commandment, that God gave mankind. If any man object, There is no man that knows God, but confesseth God to be God, no man was so mad as ever to think otherwise:
This is a notable point in Christian religion, to beleeue, that God is God indeede: not a fiction, a shadow, or imaginarie God, but God indeede. For it is the scope of the first commaundement, that God gaue mankinde. If any man obiect, There is no man that knowes God, but confesseth God to be God, no man was so mad as euer to thinke otherwise:
I answer, to believe the true God to be God indeed, is a matter of great difficulty. For, though a man by nature think there is a God, yet do we not by nature think the true God to be God. Nay, by nature every man is an Atheist, and denieth in his heart the true God to be God, and doth impugn the first commandment above all other. And this ⟨p. 81⟩may truly and safely be affirmed of all men that ever came of Adam (Christ alone excepted) that by nature they are Atheists, and it may be proved thus.