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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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Thus we see the matter of his obedience. Now followeth the end: Which he should after receive for inheritance.
Thus we see the matter of his obedience. Now followeth the end: Which he should after receiue for inheritance.
The second particular in his obedience, is the End, why he went out of his own Country; namely, to inherit another, that is, the land of Canaan, called else-where the land of Promise, because God promised it unto him, and to his •eed. Now Abraham, at Gods commandment, went out of his own Country into this place, to inherit it, and to take possession ⟨p. 186⟩of it.
The second particular in his obedience, is the End, why he went out of his owne Country; namely, to inherite another, that is, the land of Canaan, called else-where the land of Promise, because God promised it vnto him, and to his •eed. Now Abraham, at Gods commaundement, went out of his owne Country into this place, to inherite it, and to take possession ⟨p. 186⟩of it.
But it may be objected, He inherited it not; yea furthermore, Stephen saith, Act. 7.4. God brought him in, but gave him no inheritance in it, no, not the breadth of a foot.
But it may be obiected, He inherited it not; yea furthermore, Stephen saith,