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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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The third sort are such as worship the true God, but in a false manner: and of these there are 3. principal sorts; First, Turks: Secondly, Jews; who hold the true God, but deny the Trinity of persons, and the deity of Christ. Thirdly, the true Papist holds in word one God & the Trinity of persons as we do: but look at their doctrine, and (if their words ⟨p. 84⟩have any natural meaning) they deny it: for, if the second person be true Christ, then hath he two natures, Godhead and Manhood: but by their feigned Transubstantiation, they quite take away the truth of the Manhood. And again, Christ hath three offices; he is the True King, Priest, and Prophet of his Church: and if he be not so, he is not Christ: But the Papists doctrine in plain words, and necessary consequence denieth them all, as hath been often proved unto their shame, and published to the world: and they never yet to this day could or durst answer it: for if they do, they shall soon either hear of us again, or else we will recant it. But till then, it appears, that their God is by their doctrine not the true God, but an Idol: for, he that denieth the Son, denieth the Father also, 1as saith S. John.
The third sort are such as worship the true God, but in a false manner: and of these there are 3. principall sorts; First, Turkes: Secondly, Iewes; who hold the true God, but denie the Trinity of persons, and the deity of Christ. Thirdly, the true Papist holds in word one God & the Trinity of persons as wee doe: but looke at their doctrine, and (if their words ⟨p. 84⟩haue any naturall meaning) they denie it: for, if the second person be true Christ, then hath hee two natures, Godhead and Manhood: but by their fained Transubstantiation, they quite take away the truth of the Manhood. And againe, Christ hath three offices; hee is the True King, Priest, and Prophet of his Church: and if he be not so, he is not Christ: But the Papists doctrine in plaine words, and necessarie consequence denieth them all, as hath beene often proued vnto their shame, and published to the world: and they neuer yet to this day could or durst answere it: for if they doe, they shall soone either heare of vs againe, or else we will recant it. But till then, it appeares, that their God is by their doctrine not the true God, but an Idoll: for, he that denieth the Sonne, denieth the Father also,