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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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Obeyed God.
Obayed God.
Here is the obedience of Abraham's faith, laid down in one general word: He obeyed; that is, when God called him to leave his Country, kindred, and friends, he yielded against reason, because God bade him. When God told him he would carry him into another land, he believed it, and lest a certain for an uncertain, a possession for an expectation: here was the power and excellency of his faith appearing in this obedience. From hence we learn two instructions:
Here is the obedience of Abrahams faith, laide downe in one generall word: He obayed; that is, when God called him to leaue his Country, kindred, and friends, hee yeelded against reason, because God bade him. When God told him he would carie him into another land, he beleeued it, and lest a certaine for an vncertaine, a possession for an expectation: heere was the power and excellencie of his faith appearing in this obedience. From hence we learne two instructions: