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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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To conclude this second point; Faith is a hand to take hold on Christ & his benefits. Love is a hand to give out tokens of faith both to God and man. For (1. Cor. 13.5) Love seeketh not her own, but others good: namely, the good of them that are loved. Hope is an eye looking out, and waiting for the good things promised. So, that as faith is the hand of the soul; so love is the hand, and hope is the eye of faith: Love the hand whereby it worketh, and Hope the eye whereby it waiteth and looketh for the performance of such things, as faith hath apprehended and believed. If the Church of Rome think this any wrong to this holy virtue of love to be the hand of faith: let them know it is not ours, it is the doctrine of the Apostle, where he saith, Faith worketh by love. If faith work by it, then surely love is the hand of faith. Thus faith worketh by love, waiteth by hope, but believeth by it self.
To conclude this second point; Faith is a hand to take hold on Christ & his benefits. Loue is a hand to giue out tokens of faith both to God and man. For (1. Cor. 13.5) Loue seeketh not her owne, but others good: namely, the good of them that are loued. Hope is an eye looking out, and wayting for the good things promised. So, that as faith is the hand of the soule; so loue is the hand, and hope is the eye of faith: Loue the hand wherby it worketh, and Hope the eye whereby it waiteth and looketh for the performance of such things, as faith hath apprehended and beleeued. If the Church of Rome thinke this any wrong to this holy vertue of loue to be the hand of faith: let them know it is not ours, it is the doctrine of the Apostle, where he saith, Faith worketh by loue. If faith worke by it, then surely loue is the hand of faith. Thus faith worketh by loue, waiteth by hope, but beleeueth by it selfe.
And for this cause, the righteousness, that makes us righteous before God, is rather called the righteousness of faith, then of any other Christian virtue, or grace of the spirit. And for the same cause is it, that so often in S. Pauls Epistles, it is called by the same name; as,