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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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Uncreated ▪ is that which is in God, and hath no beginning nor ending, no means, nor measure. Of this speaketh the Prophet, Psalm. 119.137. Righteous art thou, O Lord. This cannot make any man righteous; for two reasons.
Vncreated ▪ is that which is in God, and hath no beginning nor ending, no meanes, nor measure. Of this speaketh the Prophet, Psalm. 119.137. Righteous art thou, O Lord. This cannot make any man righteous; for two reasons.
First; for the Godhead and it are all one, It is in God essentially. A man is one thing, and his righteousness is another. But God and his righteousness are all one: And therefore it is as impossible for any man to have this righteousness ▪ as it is to be God.
First; for the Godhead and it are all one, It is in God essentially. A man is one thing, and his righteousnesse is another. But God and his righteousnesse are all one: And therefore it is as impossible for any man to haue this righteousnes ▪ as it is to be God.
Secondly, it is infinite, and mans soul a finite creature, and therefore not capable of any thing that is infinite; and consequently, not of the unmeasurable righteousness which ⟨p. 151⟩is in the godhead. Therefore this we must leave unto God, as proper to the Deity.