A09376:739
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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The manner of this his leaving his Country, in mans reason would seem strange; nay, the world will condemn it for plain foolishness, for a man to leave a certainty, for an uncertainty. But it may here be doubted, how the Apostle can here say, that he knew not whither he went▪ seeing these words are not in the Story of the old Testament: doth not that practice allow traditions beside Scripture?
The manner of this his leauing his Country, in mans reason would seeme strange; nay, the world will condemne it for plaine foolishnesse, for a man to leaue a certainty, for an vncertainty. But it may here be doubted, how the Apostle can here say, that he knew not whither he went▪ seeing these words are not in the Storie of the olde Testament: doth not that practice allow traditions beside Scripture?
I answer first; We refuse no traditions, which are agreeable to the Scripture, and analogy of faith: but such as are agreeable to one of these, we receive them, though not as Scripture.
I answer first; We refuse no traditions, which are agreeable to the Scripture, and analogie of faith: but such as are agreeable to one of these, wee receiue them, though not as Scripture.
Secondly, if the Apostles in the new Testament do add any thing in any Story, which is not in the old (as S. Paul doth the manner of the Sorcerers of Egypt, Jannes and Jam•res, 2. Timoth. 3.8) that circumstance by them so added, is to be holden as Scripture and no tradition; because they (having the same spirit of God, which the Writers of the old