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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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The use, is to teach us to make true use of our afflictions, and of those many hard crosses that must fall upon us in our course of serving God; namely, to know that they are sent from God, not as a hard-hearted, or cruel Judge; but as a wise and merciful Father, who wisheth our good, and who will so bless unto us the hardest and heaviest crosses, that befall us in our lives (if we receive them in patience & faith) that we shall say with David, Psalm. 119.72. It is good for us that we have been in trouble, for thereby we have learned to know God, and our selves better.
The vse, is to teach vs to make true vse of our afflictions, and of those many hard crosses that must fall vpon vs in our course of seruing God; namely, to know that they are sent from God, not as a hard-hearted, or cruell Iudge; but as a wise and mercifull Father, who wisheth our good, and who will so bles•e vnto vs the hardest and heauiest crosses, that befall vs in our liues (if we receiue them in patience & faith) that we shall say with Dauid, Psalm. 119.72. It is good for vs that we haue been in trouble, for thereby we haue learned to know God, and our selues better.
Thirdly, whereas Abraham at Gods commandment goeth out of his Country into another; we learn that it is not unlawful for a Christian man, to go out of his own Country, and travail into another, and there to abide for some, or for a long time: Provided, his causes be good and just, as namely, these which follow;
Thirdly, whereas Abraham at Gods commaundement goeth out of his Country into another; we learne that it is not vnlawfull for a Christian man, to goe out of his owne Country, and trauaile into another, and there to abide for some, or for a long time: Prouided, his causes be good and iust, as namely, these which follow;