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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. It is laid down to be his a biding in the Land of Promise. 2. It is amplified by two circumstances: 1. The manner how he dwelt there, in two points: 1. As a Stranger, or in a strange Country. 2. As one that dwelt in Tents, and not in houses. 2. The persons with whom: with Isaac, and Jacob, Heirs with him of the same Promise.
1. It is laide downe to bee his a biding in the Lande of Promise. 2. It is amplified by two circumstances: 1. The manner how he dwelt there, in two points: 1. As a Stranger, or in a strange Country. 2. As one that dwelt in Tents, and not in houses. 2. The persons with whom: with Isaac, and Iacob, Heires with him of the same Promise.
The first point in order, is his dwelling in the land of Canaan (called here the land of Promise).
By faith he abode in the land of Promise.
Canaan is now called the land of Promise, because it was promised in the verse afore-going, as we then heard: so that the meaning is, he abode in that Land, which was promised him, when he came out of his own Country. Which Country Abraham knew not by name, when he left his own, nor till he came thither: but then God told him, This is the Land I will give thee and thy seed.