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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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Thirdly, the building of it was a matter of much mockery to the world: for, it signified; 1. the destroying of the whole world: 2. the saving of him and his. These things were taunted at by the worldly wise men of that sinful age, and he was loudly laughed at by many a man, to think all the world ⟨p. 123⟩should perish; but much more, if all perished, to imagine that he and his should be delivered.
Thirdly, the building of it was a matter of much mockery to the world: for, it signified; 1. the destroying of the whole world: 2. the sauing of him and his. These things were taunted at by the worldly wise men of that sinful age, and he was loudly laught at by many a man, to thinke all the world ⟨p. 123⟩should perish; but much more, if all perished, to imagine that he and his should be deliuered.
Lastly, the building of the Ark was a harsh thing to nature, and natural reason, in many respects: for,
Lastly, the building of the Arke was a harsh thing to nature, and naturall reason, in many respects: for,
First, that all the world should be destroyed, seemed not possible to be, because it never had been.
First, that all the world should be destroyed, seemed not possible to be, because it neuer had beene.