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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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Whether was all the world, that is, all the men in that world condemned or no? The words seem to imply that all but Noah were: and yet it may seem strange, that of so many Millions none should repent but he: and if they repented, why were they not saved? I answer, The world of that wicked age was condemned two ways:
Whether was all the world, that is, all the men in that world condemned or no? The words seeme to imply that all but Noah were: and yet it may seeme strange, that of so many Millions none should repent but he: and if they repented, why were they not saued? I answere, The world of that wicked age was condemned two wayes:
First, with a corporal destruction, and so they were all condemned without exception. No high houses, no hills, no devises of man could save them. For, the waters rose 15. cubits above the tops of the highest mountains under heaven, Gen. 7.20. And so though till then, divers of them lived by flying to the hills: yet that being their last refuge, and being thus taken from them, then all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, and every man, and every thing that drew the breath of life. For, so saith the Story, Genesis 7.21.22. And it is but vain to imagine, that any of them could be saved upon that Ark: for, first it was so made with a ridge in the top (as is most probably thought) that no man could stand upon it, much less make any stay, in that violent tossing by tempests. Again, if they could, yet could they not have lived so long for want of food; the waters being (almost) a year upon the earth. And thus it is most certain, they all without exception, were destroyed with bodily destruction.
First, with a corporall destruction, and so they were all condemned without exception. No high houses, no hilles, no deuises of man could saue them. For, the waters rose 15. cubits aboue the tops of the highest mountaines vnder heauen,