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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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For the first, it may be asked, what is meant by the world? S. Peter answereth (2. Ep. 2.5) The world of the ungodly; that is, that generation of sinful men, who lived in the days of Noah, whom also in the 1. Epistle, 3.20. he calleth disobedient: and their more particular sins are disclosed and recorded by Moses, Gen. 6.45. to be, monstrous abuse of holy marriage, unnatural lusts, cruelties, and oppressions: an utter neglect of Gods service, and Sabaoth; and an extreme profaneness, and dissoluteness in every kind. And this corruption was not private, or personal; but universal, through all estates, sexes, and ages. This world of the ungodly, ⟨p. 141⟩this whole race of wicked and disobedient men were condemned. But how was that world condemned by Noah? Thus: God vouchsafed them 120. years to repent in, and appointed Noah to preach unto them, during that time, to call them to repentance. But they believed not God, nor Noah, but continued in their disobedience, and grew in their ungodliness: therefore, when that time was expired, God performed his word spoken by Noah, brought the flood upon them, destroyed them all, and condemned in hell as many of them as died in impenitency and unbelief. And thus that wicked world was condemned, according as Noah in his Ministry had foretold them.
For the first, it may be asked, what is meant by the world? S. Peter answereth (2. Ep. 2.5) The world of the vngodly; that is, that generation of sinfull men, who liued in the dayes of Noah, whom also in the 1. Epistle, 3.20. hee calleth disobedient: and their more particular sinnes are disclosed and recorded by Moses, Gen. 6.45. to be, monstrous abuse of holy mariage, vnnaturall lusts, cruelties, and oppressions: an vtter neglect of Gods seruice, and Sabbaoth; and an extreame prophanenesse, and dissolutenesse in euery kinde. And this corruption was not priuate, or personall; but vniuersall, through all estates, sexes, and ages. This world of the vngodly, ⟨p. 141⟩this whole race of wicked and disobedient men were condemned. But how was that world condemned by Noah? Thus: God vouchsafed them 120. yeeres to repent in, and appointed Noah to preach vnto them, during that time, to call them to repentance. But they beleeued not God, nor Noah, but continued in their disobedience, and grew in their vngodlinesse: therefore, when that time was expired, God performed his word spoken by Noah, brought the floud vpon them, destroyed them all, and condemned in hell as many of them as died in impenitencie and vnbeliefe. And thus that wicked world was condemned, according as Noah in his Ministerie had foretold them.