A09376:736
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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Let this teach us all to look to our lives, & make conscience ⟨p. 191⟩of all sin; especially great & capital, & crying sins: for the sins of a people are worms and Cankers, eating out the life and strength of a common-wealth. And let our State and government learn here to look to the reformation of our people, especially for great sins. For, open profaneness, or uncleanness, or oppressions, or injustice, or extortions, or cruelties ▪ and exactions; all these, or any of these sins, reigning in a State, are able to overturn the best established Kingdom on the earth, and will at last (do power and policy what they can) make the land spew out her inhabitants: and in the mean time (let the wily wits of men, judge as they list) it will prove true, that the sinful and profane man is the worst, and the godly and conscionable man, the best friend to a State, and best subject in a Kingdom.
Let this teach vs all to looke to our liues, & make conscience ⟨p. 191⟩of all sin; especially great & capitall, & crying sins: for the sinnes of a people are wormes and Cankers, eating out the life and strength of a cōmon-wealth. And let our State and gouernment learne here to look to the reformation of our people, especially for great sinnes. For, open profanenesse, or vncleanenesse, or oppressions, or iniustice, or extortions, or cruelties ▪ and exactions; all these, or any of these sinnes, raigning in a State, are able to ouerturne the best established Kingdome on the earth, and will at last (doe power and policie what they can) make the land spewe out her inhabitants: and in the meane time (let the wily wits of men, iudge as they list) it will proue true, that the sinfull and profane man is the worst, and the godly and conscionable man, the best friend to a State, and best subiect in a Kingdome.
Thus much for the second point in Abraham's obedience; namely, the end of it.