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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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Thirdly, if it be for the safety of his life in a good cause. So Moses, Exod. 2.14.15, fled into the land of Midian, and there stayed, when Pharaoh sought his life: And Christ himself fled with his Father and Mother into Egypt, from the fury of Herod, Math. 1. The like may be said for them, that to preserve their liberty, fly from the cruelty of their Creditors, who will not take honest and reasonable satisfaction, of a surety for another man, or of a child for the Fathers debts: But in no case for them, who travail in purpose to defeat their Creditors, or thereby to deliver themselves from payment of their due debts, being able to pay. Of both these, we have example in David, & his followers. David himself was fain to fly for his life from Saul• unjust cruelty, and therefore went and dwelt amongst the Philistines, 1. Sam. 27.1.2. And, 1. Sam. 22.2. there cam to David such as were in trouble, and in debt, and these were with him in all his travail, and persecutions. Now doubtless had they been ungodly men (who had not cared how they came into debt, no• how they paid it) David would never have been their Prince; as that Text saith he was.
Thirdly, if it be for the safety of his life in a good cause. So Moses, Exod. 2.14.15, fled into the land of Midian, and there stayed, when Pharaoh sought his life: And Christ himselfe fled with his Father and Mother into Egypt, from the furie of Herod, Math. 1. The like may be said for them, that to preserue their liberty, flie from the cruelty of their Creditors, who will not take honest and reasonable satisfaction, of a surety for another man, or of a childe for the Fathers debts: But in no case for them, who trauaile in purpose to defeate their Creditors, or thereby to deliuer themselues from payment of their due debts, being able to pay. Of both these, wee haue example in Dauid, & his followers. Dauid himselfe was faine to flie for his life from Saul vniust cruelty, and therefore went and dwelt amongst the Philistims,