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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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Such is the providence of God over his, when they are in the deepest distresses, & most destitute of all worldly comforts.
Such is the prouidence of God ouer his, when they are in the deepest distresses, & most destitute of all worldly comforts.
The use of this doctrine ministereth comfort unto Gods children: who as they are sure of strange calamities to fall upon them; so are they sure also of a special care of God over them, even in their greatest extremities. And this may Gods children (who serve him in the true obedience of faith) ever assure themselves of, that the Lord doth never forget, nor forsake them in any of their troubles: but will be ever ready with his merciful hand, to defend them from dangers, to provide for them in necessities, & to comfort them in distresses, when they know not in the world how to do. Elisha had an army of men sent against him, to take him: How should one man escape from a whole army?1 His man cried, Alas Master how shall we do? He answered his man, and bad him, Fear not, there were more for him then against him; that is, more Angels (though they were unseen) for him, then there were men in the Army against him. And so when no man ⟨p. 129⟩would shut the door for Noah, there were Angels enow ready sent from God to do it for him: and when all wicked men wished he might perish with the Ark he had made, & assured themselves he would perish, having no such helps as ships require; then the holy Angels, or rather God himself, supplied all such wants unto him: and so when themselves perished, they saw him and his household saved by that Ark. And no less care hath God over his Church and children to this day. And though he worketh not visible miracles for them, yet they feel and find that he is oftentimes mighty, and wonderful in preserving them, in providing for them, in assisting them, and in comforting them, when else without that providence of his, they know they had miscarried.