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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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And yet for all this, men must not presume to live carelessly in their sins, for that is desperately to tempt God: but must follow the holy Counsel of Solomon, Eccles. 12.1, To remember their Creator in the days of their youth: and to turn unto God, when they have means, least God take away the means, and with the means, his favour from them. Abraham was not called, till he was old; but when he was called, he harkened and obeyed: So must thou, when God calls thee by afflictions, or by his word, then answer and obey as Abraham did; or else Abraham's calling in his old age, will be little comfort to thee.
And yet for all this, men must not presume to liue carelesly in their sinnes, for that is desperately to tempt God: but must follow the holy Counsell of Salomon, Eccles. 12.1, To remember their Creator in the dayes of their youth: and to turne vnto God, when they haue meanes, least God take away the meanes, and with the meanes, his fauour from them. Abraham was not called, till he was olde; but when hee was called, hee harkened and obayed: So must thou, when God calls thee by afflictions, or by his word, then answere and obay as Abraham did; or else Abrahams calling in his old age, will be little comfort to thee.
Thus much for the time.
Thirdly, for the manner of his calling, it is laid down in the Story of Genesis, to be in an earnest kind of Counsel, Go out, saith God, from thy kindred, and from thy Fathers house, unto the land that I will show thee: Where it is to be observed, he saith not barely Go, or come forth; but he amplifieth, and urgeth it with many words and circumstances.