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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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Therefore we must all learn, as good children to follow our Father, in framing our lives according to Gods calling: when GOD calleth us to any state of life, ⟨p. 178⟩then to obey; and when not God, but the world or ou• own corrupt h•m ours call us, then not to obey. For, to obey the first▪ is the obedience of faith: but to obey the second, is the obedience of corruption. Therefore against this practice of holy Abraham, two sorts of men do offend, and thereby show themselves children unlike their Father Abraham.
Therefore wee must all learne, as good children to followe our Father, in framing our liues according to Gods calling: when GOD calleth vs to anie state of life, ⟨p. 178⟩then to obay; and when not God, but the world or ou• owne corrupt h•m ours call vs, then not to obay. For, to obay the first▪ is the obedience of faith: but to obay the second, is the obedience of corruption. Therefore against this practice of holy Abraham, two sorts of men doe offend, and thereby shewe themselues children vnlike their Father Abraham.