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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now the Mediators obedience was double; Active, & Passive.
Now the Mediators obedience was double; Actiue, & Passiue.
And both these he performed in his own person▪
And both these he performed in his owne person▪
His Passive obedience was his passion, or suffering of whatsoever the Justice of God had inflicted on man for sin, whether for soul or body.
His Passiue obedience was his passion, or suffering of whatsoeuer the Iustice of God had inflicted on man for sinne, whether for soule or body.
The Active obedience of the Mediators person, was his perfect fulfilling of the moral Law, in all duties to God or man, in thought, word, or deed; and all this for us, in our stead and on our behalf. And here is true righteousness: for where the nature of any person is perfectly pure, and the obedience perfect, the righteousness of that person is perfect. And I say, all this was done by him for us: he suffered all that we should have suffered, and suffered not: he did that which we should have done, and did not. And this is that righteousness, by which, a sinner is made righteous before God. For, seeing legal