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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. By it he saved his household. 2. Hereby he condemned the world.
1. By it he saued his houshold. 2. Hereby he condemned the world.
The first end which both God had in commanding, and Noah in making the Ark, was the saving of his household: that is, himself, & all that belonged to him; which were his wife, his three sons, and their wives, Gen. 7.7.
The first end which both God had in commaunding, and Noah in making the Arke, was the sauing of his houshold: that is, himself, & all that belonged to him; which were his wife, his three sonnes, and their wiues, Gen. 7.7.
But first of all, it may seem wonderful, how this Ark should save him and his household in this general destruction. For it was a great and huge vessel resembling a ship: yet so far unlike, as it is rather called an Ark. It must float above the water, it must be laden with a heavy burden; and yet without Anchor to stay her, without mast to poise her, without stern to guide and move her, without Master to govern her. For Noah was partly a husbandman, and partly a Preacher: and though he had much learning, yet the use of sailing was not then found out: and therefore in all reason ⟨p. 127⟩this Ark would be carried on hills and rocks, by the violence of the Tempests, and so slit in pieces. Yet, for all this, it saved him, even when heaven and earth seemed to run together (so vehement was the rain) even then it saved him and his. How came this to pass? Even because Gods providence and his hand was with it: He was the Master, and the Steers-man. For as God himself shut the door of the Ark upon him, when he was in, and made it fast after him, that no water might enter (which was impossible for Noah himself to have done)