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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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And as Gods children wonder at the excellencies of Gods mercies unto them, so also at their own baseness and unworthiness. Thus doth holy David, 2. Sam. 7.18. (who as he was a man of much faith, so was he full of excellent meditations, and reverent speeches of God, which are the true effects of faith) when God had set him in his kingdom, he saith, Who am I, O Lord, and what is my house that thou hast brought me hither? And 1. Chron. 29.14. But who am I, saith he, and what is my people, that we should offer thus unto the Lord? And doubtless even so said Noah's blessed soul often unto the Lord, and to it self, Who am I, O Lord, and what is my family, that we should be chosen out of so many thousands, and be saved when all the world perisheth?
And as Gods childrē wonder at the excellencies of Gods mercies vnto them, so also at their owne basenesse and vnworthinesse. Thus doth holy Dauid, 2. Sam. 7.18. (who as hee was a man of much faith, so was he full of excellent meditations, and reuerent speeches of God, which are the true effects of faith) when God had set him in his kingdome, hee saith, Who am I, O Lord, and what is my house that thou hast brought me hither? And 1. Chron. 29.14. But who am I, saith he, and what is my people, that wee should offer thus vnto the Lord? And doubtlesse euen so said Noahs blessed soule often vnto the Lord, and to it selfe, Who am I, O Lord, and what is my family, that we should be chosen out of so many thousands, and be saued when all the world perisheth?
Let us apply this to our Church and State. If any Nation have cause to say thus, it is England. God hath delivered us out of the thraldom of spiritual Egypt, and led us out: not by a Moses, but first by a child, then by a woman, and given us his Gospel, more fully, and freely, and quietly, then any kingdom so great in the world; and still delivereth us from the cursed plots of the Pope, and tyrannous invasions of the Spaniard, who thought to have marked us in the foreheads with the brand of infamy, and to have done to us as they have done to other nations whom they have conquered: but God from heaven fought for us, and overthrew them in their own devises: yea, the Lord put his hook in his nostrils, and his bridle in his lips, and carried him back again with