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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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3. It made him heir of the righteousness, which is by faith.
3. It made him heire of the righteousnesse, which is by faith.
This, I take it, is the true resolution of these words: and they contain many excellent things concerning his faith.
This, I take it, is the true resolution of these wordes: and they containe manie excellent things concerning his faith.
By faith Noah being warned of God, of the things which were as yet not seen:
By faith Noah being warned of God, of the things which were as yet not seene:
By faith, that is, by a general and historical Faith, and also by a true and saving faith in the Messiah to come, Noah (being warned of God of the just Judgement he purposed to bring upon the world, by an universal flood; and of his merciful providence, to him and his family, that he would save them by an Ark (all which things were then to come, and therefore unseen) he believed these forewarnings of God: and therefore, in reverence to this message from God, he prepared the Ark, and thereby saved his household, and condemned the wicked world. And so his faith by all these appearing to be a true and lively faith, did make him a just and righteous man in Gods sight. This is the sum and substance of Noah's example: let us speak of the several parts in order.