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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, it is said; This faith is the ground or substance ▪ for the word signifieth both. The meaning is: things hoped for, as yet are not, and so have no being nor substance. Now faith that believes the promises, and applieth them, that faith gives to these things which yet are not (after a sort) a substance or subsistence in the heart of the believer: so that that thing which never had, nor yet hath a being in it self, by this faith hath a being in the heart of the believer; this I take to be the true meaning.
Secondly, it is said; This faith is the ground or substance ▪ for the word signifieth both. The meaning is: things hoped for, as yet are not, and so haue no being nor substance. Now faith that beleeues the promises, and applieth them, that faith giues to these things which yet are not (after a sort) a substance or subsistence in the heart of the beleeuer: so that that thing which neuer had, nor yet hath a being in it selfe, by this faith hath a being in the heart of the beleeuer; this I take to be the true meaning.
Thirdly, it followeth of what things▪ this faith is the ground or substance: namely, of things hoped for, and things not seen. And these be of two sorts: either in regard of the Fathers of the old testament alone, or of them and us both.
Thirdly, it followeth of what things▪ this faith is the ground or substance: namely, of things hoped for, and things not seene. And these be of two sorts: either in regard of the Fathers of the old testament alone, or of them and vs both.
Of the first sort were these two: 1. The incarnation of Christ. 2. The publishing of the Gospel, both to Jew and Gentile in a glorious manner: both these were hoped for of them, but we have seen them: to them they had a being only in faith: to us a being in themselves.