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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 an assurance of Gods love unto their souls: for if he was so careful to save their bodies from the flood, they thereby assured themselves, he would be as good unto their souls; which they knew to be far more precious and excellent.
First, it was an assurance of Gods loue vnto their soules: for if hee was so carefull to saue their bodies from the floud, they thereby assured themselues, hee would be as good vnto their soules; which they knew to be farre more pretious and excellent.
Secondly, it showed them how to be saved. For, as they saw no safety, nothing but present death out of the Ark: So it taught them, that out of Gods Church, and out of Gods favour, no salvation could be expected; and so it taught them to labour to be in Gods favour and members of his true Church.
Secondly, it shewed them how to be saued. For, as they saw no safety, nothing but present death out of the Arke: So it taught them, that out of Gods Church, and out of Gods fauour, no saluation could be expected; and so it taught them to labour to be in Gods fauour and members of his true Church.
Thirdly, they saw they were saved from the flood, by faith and obedience. For first, Noah believed Gods word, that the flood should come; then he obeyed Gods commandment, and made the Ark, as he was commanded. And thus he and his, by believing & obeying, were saved through the Ark: and without these, the Ark could not have saved them. This taught them more particularly how to be saved; namely, by believing God, and obeying God, and else no salvation. For, when they saw their bodies could not be saved without them; It assured them, much less could their souls be saved without faith and obedience.