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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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Secondly, it cannot make a man righteous: for wicked men have it, which are unrighteous, and cannot be saved. Haman hated Mordecai in his heart: yea, his heart boiled in malice against him: yet the Story saith; That nevertheless he refrained himself till he came home, Ester 5.10. And therefore Christ saith, that except our righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, we cannot enter ⟨p. 153⟩into the kingdom of heaven, Math. 5.20. Now what was theirs but an outward civill righteousness, whereby they kept the law, only in outward actions? as appeareth, in that Christ, afterward in the same Chapter, expounding the law, doth reduce it to the inward, which is to his full and proper sense: So then, yet we have not found that righteousness, which may make a man righteous.
Secondly, it cannot make a man righteous: for wicked men haue it, which are vnrighteous, and cannot be saued. Haman hated Mordecay in his heart: yea, his heart boyled in malice against him: yet the Story saith; That neuerthelesse he refrained himselfe till he came home, Ester 5.10. And therefore Christ saith, that except our righteousnesse exceede the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisies, we cannot enter ⟨p. 153⟩into the kingdome of heauen, Math. 5.20. Now what was theirs but an outward ciuill righteousnesse, whereby they kept the law, onely in outward actions? as appeareth, in that Christ, afterward in the same Chapter, expounding the law, doth reduce it to the inward, which is to his full and proper sense: So then, yet wee haue not found that righteousnesse, which may make a man righteous.