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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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I answer, though Abraham did not inherit it personally himself, yet he may be said to inherit it two ways: 1. Sacramentally, or Mystically: 2. In his posterity.
I answere, though Abraham did not inherite it personally himselfe, yet he may be said to inherite it two wayes: 1. Sacramentally, or Mystically: 2. In his posteritie.
First, Sacramentally thus; The land of Canaan, is to be understood, not only as a Country of Asia, fruitful and fertile, and plentiful of all good things, wherein the only visible Church was confirmed till Christs coming: But further, as a Type of the heavenly Canaan, where the triumphant Church reigns in glory with God. And thus Abraham did in his own person inherit it: for he was translated from this world, after his death, into the glory of heaven. And in that respect, the glory of heaven is rather called the bosom of Abraham, Luke 16, then of any other the Patriarchs, both for the excellency of his faith, as also for that the promise of inheriting the land of Canaan, was first of all (personally) made to him; which because he enjoyed not, he was recompensed with the fruition of the true Canaan.
First, Sacramentally thus; The land of Canaan, is to be vnderstoode, not onely as a Country of Asia, fruitfull and fertile, and plentifull of all good things, wherein the onely visible Church was confirmed till Christs comming: But further, as a Type of the heauenly Canaan, where the triumphant Church raignes in glory with God. And thus Abraham did in his owne person inherite it: for he was translated from this world, after his death, into the glory of heauen. And in that respect, the glory of heauen is rather called the bosome of Abraham, Luke 16, then of any other the Patriarkes, both for the excellencie of his faith, as also for that the promise of inheriting the land of Canaan, was first of all (personally) made to him; which because he enioyed not, he was recompenced with the fruition of the true Cannaan.