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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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For the 1. it may be asked, How were they approved of God?
For the 1. it may be asked, How were they approued of God?
Ans. Christ the son of God is he, in whom the Father is well pleased. 1Now they believing in Christ, their sins were laid on him; and made his by imputation: and contrariwise his holiness, obedience, and satisfaction, were imputed to them, and by the same imputation made theirs: Now that being theirs, God being so well pleased with Christ, could not but also for Christs sake approve of them. If this seem hard unto any, I make it plain by this comparison. Look as Jacob a younger brother, puts on Esau's garment, the elder brother, & in it was taken for Esau, & obtained his fathers blessing & ⟨p. 13⟩patrimony, which by himself he could not have got: even so we are as younger brethren, Christ is our elder brother, we have no right nor title to our fathers blessing, nor to the kingdom of heaven: we must put on the robe of perfect righteousness, which is the garment of Christ, our elder brother: we, standing clothed with […], purchase our fathers favour, and with his favour his ble•••ng, and his blessing is the right and title to everlasting life. And thus by Christ they were approved.
Ans. Christ the sonne of God is he, in whom the Father is well pleased. 1Now they beleeuing in Christ, their sinnes were laid on him; and made his by imputation: and contrariwise his holinesse, obedience, and satisfaction, were imputed to them, and by the same imputation made theirs: Now that being theirs, God being so well pleased with Christ, could not but also for Christs sake approue of them. If this seeme hard vnto any, I make it plain by this comparison. Looke as Iacob a yonger brother, puts on Esaus garment, the elder brother, & in it was takē for Esau, & obtained his fathers blessing &