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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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If any man ask, how can faith apply Christ to the believer? I answer: as a man, being in his corrupt nature, hath nothing to do with Christ: So contrariwise, when the holy Ghost hath wrought faith in his heart by a supernatural operation; then we are to know, that as faith is the proper instrument to apprehend Christ: So is Christ and his righteousness the proper object for faith to work upon. For, though it apprehend & apply all other promises which God makes to our souls or bodies: yet most properly and principally, and in the first place, it apprehends the promise of salvation, and ⟨p. 163⟩the righteousness of Christ. Now for the particular manner, how faith doth thus; we are to know, that though it be spiritual & invisible, and so not easily expressed to sense, yet is it done as properly by faith, as a garment is by the hand taken and applied to the body, or a plaster to a sore.
If any man aske, how can faith apply Christ to the beleeuer? I answer: as a man, being in his corrupt nature, hath nothing to doe with Christ: So contrariwise, when the holy Ghost hath wrought faith in his heart by a supernaturall operation; then wee are to know, that as faith is the proper instrument to apprehend Christ: So is Christ and his righteousnesse the proper obiect for faith to work vpō. For, though it apprehend & apply all other promises which God makes to our soules or bodies: yet most properly and principally, and in the first place, it apprehends the promise of saluation, and ⟨p. 163⟩the righteousnesse of Christ. Now for the particular manner, how faith doth thus; we are to know, that though it be spirituall & inuisible, and so not easily expressed to sense, yet is it done as properly by faith, as a garment is by the hand taken and applied to the body, or a plaister to a sore.
If any ask further; But when may a man know, whether his faith have apprehended and applied Christs righteousness to his soul, or no?