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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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Secondly, Abraham inherited Canaan in his posterity. For though God promised it to himself, when he was 75. years old, Gen. 12.4. and to him and to his seed, Gen. 15.7: Yet neither he nor his immediate seed enjoyed it, but his posterity the Israelites, 430. years after the promise, as S. Paul proveth, Galath. 3.17. And so Abraham inherited it in his posterity, which is a part of him; and they inherited it many hundred years, even until the coming of Christ.
Secondly, Abraham inherited Canaan in his posterity. For though God promised it to himselfe, when he was 75. yeeres olde, Gen. 12.4. and to him and to his seede, Gen. 15.7: Yet neither he nor his immediate seede enioyed it, but his posteritie the Israelites, 430. yeares after the promise, as S. Paul proueth, Galath. 3.17. And so Abraham inherited it in his posteritie, which is a part of him; and they inherited it many hundreth yeares, euen vntill the comming of Christ.
As afore we learned, that God in the performance of his promises, giveth not always the thing promised: so here let us learn that he doth not always perform them to the same parties, and yet most truly performeth them. If therefore God doth not to our selves, nor in our times accomplish his promises, or prophecies, we must not be impatient, but wait in patience. For, as the holy Prophet saith, The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the last it shall speak and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; it shall surely come, and shall not stay, Habba. 2.3. To this end David also most divinely saith, Psalm. 97.11. Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. See, light and joy belongs unto them: but how? It is sown; that is, it is in hope and expectation, and not always in fruition. Therefore as the Husbandman casts his seed into the earth, and is content to stay