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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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The days of the coming of the son of Man (which I take to be these days) shall be like (saith Christ, Math. 24.37). unto the days of Noah: And surely in security and profaneness, they are like; and therefore in all reason they must be like in punishment. We must therefore take warning by them, and shake off this security, which possesseth ⟨p. 142⟩all mens hearts, and wait for the Lord in watching and prayer, and think every day may be the last day of this world; at least, the last day of our lives: and let us prepare for it, and live in the expectation of it. Otherwise, if our sinfulness grow on a little further; nothing can we look for, but to be condemned in an universal judgement, as that world was. Let us therefore be take our selves to a more serious serving of God: that the Lord when he cometh, may find us so doing.
The dayes of the comming of the sonne of Man (which I take to be these dayes) shall be like (saith Christ, Math. 24.37). vnto the dayes of Noah: And surely in security and profanenesse, they are like; and therefore in all reason they must be like in punishment. Wee must therefore take warning by them, and shake off this security, which possesseth ⟨p. 142⟩all mens hearts, and waite for the Lord in watching and prayer, and thinke euery day may be the last day of this world; at least, the last day of our liues: and let vs prepare for it, and liue in the expectation of it. Otherwise, if our sinfulnesse growe on a little further; nothing can we looke for, but to be condemned in an vniuersall iudgement, as that world was. Let vs therefore be take our selues to a more serious seruing of God: that the Lord when he commeth, may finde vs so doing.
Secondly, in that the whole world that then was, was thus destroyed and condemned, and (as we heard afore) only Noah and his household saved; we learn that it is not good, nor safe to follow the multitude. Noah was here a man alone, he held and believed against all the world, and yet his judgement, and his belief was true, and all the worlds false: and (accordingly) he saved, when they were all condemned.