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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, 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 ⟨p. 192⟩Testament had) have inserted it into the body of Scripture: even as the three sentences of the heathen Poets, alleged by Saint Paul (Acts 17.28. 1. Corinthians, 15.33. Titus, 1.12.) have now a divine truth in them, which they had not before.
Secondly, if the Apostles in the new Testament doe adde any thing in any Story, which is not in the olde (as S. Paul doth the manner of the Sorcerers of Egypt, Iannes and Iam•res, 2. Timoth. 3.8) that circumstance by them so added, is to be holden as Scripture and no tradition; because they (hauing the same spirit of God, which the Writers of the olde ⟨p. 192⟩Testament had) haue inserted it into the body of Scripture: euen as the three sentences of the heathen Poets, alledged by Saint Paul (Acts 17.28. 1. Corinthians, 15.33. Titus, 1.12.) haue now a diuine truth in them, which they had not before.