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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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God promised Abraham a son, in whom all the nations of the earth should be blessed (Gen. 12.3): But he performed it not of 30. years after (Gen. 21.2). He gave David the kingdom of Israel, and anointed him by Samuel, 1. Sam. 16.13. ⟨p. 121⟩But he attained it not of many years after; & in the mean time, was persecuted and hunted by Saul, as a flea in a mans bosom, or as a Partridge in the mountains, 1. Sam. 24.15. and 26.20. And thus God exercised him both in that and other his promises: as he saith, Psal. 40.1. In waiting I waited on the Lord: and Psal. 119.82, Mine eyes fail for waiting for thy promise! O when wilt thou comfort me? Thus God dealt with them, and thus in some measure he deals with all his children, to humble and to try them, and to know what is in their hearts; for that, in these cases, men do always show themselves, and their dispositions. When men enjoy all things at their will and wish; who cannot make a fair profession? but where men are long deferred, and kept from that is promised and they expect, and are so long crossed in their expectations, then they appear in their own colours.
God promised Abraham a sonne, in whom all the nations of the earth should be blessed (Gen. 12.3): But he performed it not of 30. yeeres after (Gen. 21.2). He gaue Dauid the kingdome of Israel, and anointed him by Samuel, 1. Sam. 16.13. ⟨p. 121⟩