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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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Happy will it be with our Church & State, when we have such laws, and such execution of them, as that this disorder may be reformed, & every man confined to his own dwelling, & none suffered to live in our Kingdom, who is not of some Parish: for let us be assured, so many wandering beggars, so many blemishes in our government.
Happy will it be with our Church & State, when we haue such lawes, and such execution of them, as that this disorder may be reformed, & euery man confined to his owne dwelling, & none suffred to liue in our Kingdome, who is not of som Parish: for let vs be assured, so many wandring beggers, so many blemishes in our gouernment.
Thirdly, Abraham's dwelling in this Land (being a fruit of his faith) teacheth us it is no good token, but an ill sign for a man to be uncertain in his dwelling. It is the fashion of many men, if they travail, they never lodge at one place twice: and for their dwelling, it is not certain; but now in the North, now in the South: now in this Parish, now in that: now in this jurisdiction, now in another: Sometime in the City, sometime in the Country. Who be these? But either such as be in debt, and purpose to deal ill with their Creditors: or that are malefactors, and hereby labour to avoid the censure of Authority: or else they be Papists, which by this means labour to lurk unseen, and to escape the law▪ as many of them do, either by skipping out of one Parish, Diocese, County, or Province into another, and so avoiding the authority of all: or else, by lurking in great Cities, and so lying as Sojourners, and not as Parishioners, unseen or unmarked in so great multitudes. Let our Authority take the more careful notice of such men, the more craftily they labour to creep from under it: and let such men know, they discover themselves the more by this practice, to be unfaithful either to GOD, or Men, or both; seeing that GOD here commends Abraham for dwelling or staying in that place, which GOD had appointed him. And so much for this question.
Thirdly, Abrahams dwelling in this Land (being a fruite of his faith) teacheth vs it is no good token, but an ill signe for a man to be vncertaine in his dwelling. It is the fashion of many men, if they trauaile, they neuer lodge at one place twise: and for their dwelling, it is not certain; but now in the North, now in the South: now in this Parish, now in that: now in this iurisdiction, now in another: Sometime in the Citie, sometime in the Countrey. Who be these? But either such as be in debt, and purpose to deale ill with their Creditors: or that are malefactors, and heereby labour to auoide the censure of Authoritie: or else they be Papists, which by this meanes labour to lurke vnseene, and to escape the law as many of them doe, either by skipping out of one Parish, Diocesse, Countie, or Prouince into another, and so auoiding the authoritie of all: or else, by lurking in great Cities, and so lying as Soiourners, and not as Parishioners, vnseene or vnmarked in so great multitudes. Let our Authoritie take the more carefull notice of such men, the more craftily they labour to creepe from vnder it: and let such men knowe, they discouer themselues the more by this practice, to bee vnfaithfull either to GOD, or Men, or both; seeing that GOD heere commendes Abraham for dwelling or staying in that place, which GOD had appointed him. And so much for this question.