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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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First, it was a family of four men & four women: not men or women alone▪ but both, and consisting of as many women as men. Thus God would have one sex to love another, and one to think themselves beholden to the other▪ the beginning of the first world was by one man & one woman. Of the second, by four men, and four women; but alwai•• equal. ⟨p. 135⟩And here also God would teach men not to contemn the other, though the weaker sex: for God saved as many of them from the universal flood, as he did men.
First, it was a family of foure men & foure women: not men or women alone▪ but both, and consisting of as many women as men. Thus God would haue one sexe to loue another, and one to think themselues beholden to the other▪ the beginning of the first world was by one man & one woman. Of the second, by foure men, and foure women; but alwai•• equall. ⟨p. 135⟩And here also God would teach men not to contemne the other, though the weaker sexe: for God saued as many of them from the vniuersall floud, as he did men.
Secondly, how many were they in all? but eight persons. Of the whole world no more were saved: A miserable spectacle. See what sin can do. It can bring many Millions to eight persons in a short time. See what it is to offend God. Let us not then glory in our multitudes, but glory in this, that we know and serve God: for otherwise, if our sins cry out to him against us, he can easily make us few enow.
Secondly, how many were they in all? but eight persons. Of the whole world no more were saued: A miserable spectacle. See what sinne can doe. It can bring many Millions to eight persons in a short time. See what it is to offend God. Let vs not then glory in our multitudes, but glory in this, that we know and serue God: for otherwise, if our sinnes cry out to him against vs, he can easily make vs fewe enow.