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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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Concerning these callings, let us see the means how he calleth, and the several states whereto he calleth men.
Concerning these callings, let vs see the meanes how hee calleth, and the seuerall states whereto he calleth men.
For the means or manner; God calleth men 2. ways: immediately, or by means.
For the meanes or manner; God calleth men 2. wayes: immediatly, or by meanes.
Sometime immediately by himself and his own voice: as, the extraordinary Prophets in the old Testament, & the Apostles in the new. So saith S. Paul of himself, he was called to be an Apostle, not of men, nor by men▪ but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, Galath. 1.1.
Somtime immediatly by himself and his own voice: as, the extraordinary Prophets in the olde Testament, & the Apostles in the new. So saith S. Paul of himselfe, he was called to be an Apostle, not of men, nor by men▪ but by Iesus Christ, and God the Father, Galath. 1.1.