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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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In the fourth place, let us observe how the holy Ghost saith, that Noah built the Ark; not for the saving of himself, but of his household: and it is so said for two causes:
In the fourth place, let vs obserue how the holy Ghost saith, that Noah built the Arke; not for the sauing of himselfe, but of his houshold: and it is so said for two causes:
First, to show that Noah, though he were the head & governor, yet was one of the household; for, in the word household himself is comprehended. Masters and Fathers, though they be governors, yet must think themselves members of the household; so will they have more care thereof, when they esteem themselves members of the body, and parts of the whole.
First, to shew that Noah, though he were the head & gouernour, yet was one of the houshold; for, in the word houshold himselfe is comprehended. Maisters and Fathers, though they be gouernours, yet must thinke themselues members of the houshold; so will they haue more care thereof, when they esteeme themselues members of the body, and parts of the whole.
Secondly, to teach us what care Noah had for his family; even so great, as he prepared the Ark to save them withal. Here is an example of a worthy Master of a household; and yet all this was but for a temporal deliverance. Now, if he was so careful for their bodily safety, how much more was he to save them from hell and damnation, which he knew to be an eternal destruction of both soul and body. Therefore doubtless as he was a diligent Preacher of righteousness ⟨p. 134⟩to that sinful world: so principally a diligent Preacher and Prayer, and Catechiser of his own family; that so he might make them Gods servants, and deliver them from the eternal fire of hell.