A09376:631
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 follow the second sort of Examples; namely, such as lived in the second world, after the flood.
Now follow the second sort of Examples; namely, such as liued in the second world, after the floud.
They are all of two sorts: either such as lived afore the giving of the Law, or after.
They are all of two sorts: either such as liued afore the giuing of the Law, or after.
Afore the giving of the Law, here are many: whereof, as of all the other kinds, some are men, some women.
Afore the giuing of the Law, here are many: wherof, as of all the other kinds, some are men, some women.
The first of those blessed men after the flood, whose faith is here renowned, is Abraham that great Father: of whom, and whose faith, because he was a Father of so many faithful, more is spoken then of any one.