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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.
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.
Sometime mediately by men directed by himself, & furnished, or enabled for that duty: and so were called the ordinary Prophets and Priests of the old; and the Evangelists, Pastors, & Doctors of the new Testament. The first was extraordinary; this is ordinary: the first is for an unbelieving or a misbelieving people; the second, is for an ordinary & established Church. Now, of these 2. ways, God called Abraham immediately by himself from heaven. Gen. 12.1.
Sometime mediatly by men directed by himselfe, & furnished, or inabled for that duty: and so were called the ordinarie Prophets and Priests of the old; and the Euangelists, Pastors, & Doctors of the new Testament. The first was extraordinary; this is ordinary: the first is for an vnbeleeuing or a misbeleeuing people; the second, is for an ordinary & established Church. Now, of these 2. waies, God called Abraham immediatly by himselfe from heauen.