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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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This hath not relation to the time, when the holy Ghost wrote these words, but when God gave the warning to Noah; for then they were not seen, but were to come: for they were not performed for many years after, as shall appear in the particulars.
This hath not relation to the time, when the holy Ghost wrote these words, but when God gaue the warning to Noah; for then they were not seene, but were to come: for they were not performed for many yeeres after, as shall appeare in the particulars.
Particularly they were these three: First, the great and just wrath, which God had conceived against the sinful world, for the universal corruption and general sinfulness thereof. Noah was a Preacher of righteousness to that wicked age; and as S. Peter saith (1. Epistle 3.11.) The very spirit of Christ preached in him: but they contemned both him, and the spirit by which he spake, and made a mock of him, and all ⟨p. 110⟩his holy admonitions, and solaced themselves in all their sinful pleasures, without fear or respect of God or man, pleasing themselves in their own defiled ways, & promising to themselves, safety and security. But behold, This Noah, whom they esteemed a base and contemptible man, unworthy of their company; to him is revealed, how short their time is, and that they must be cut off in the midst of their jollity. Gods children, whom wicked men do think and speak of with great contempt, do know full well the miserable state of such men, and the fearful dangers hanging over them; when the wicked men themselves are far from thinking of any such matter.
Particularly they were these three: First, the great and iust wrath, which God had conceiued against the sinfull world, for the vniuersall corruption and generall sinfulnesse therof. Noah was a Preacher of righteousnesse to that wicked age; and as S. Peter saith (1. Epistle 3.11.) The very spirit of Christ preached in him: but they contemned both him, and the spirit by which hee spake, and made a mocke of him, and all ⟨p. 110⟩