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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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2. God testified it to their own consciences, in that he gave them his spirit, inwardly to assure their consciences that he did accept them in the Messiah to come: and thus these elders received a testimony both outward to all the world, & ⟨p. 14⟩inward to their consciences, that God in Christ approved and loved them: so the sense is plain, the use hereof manifold.
2. God testified it to their owne consciences, in that hee gaue them his spirit, inwardly to assure their cōsciences that he did accept them in the Messias to come: and thus these elders receiued a testimonie both outward to all the world, & ⟨p. 14⟩inward to their consciences, that God in Christ approued and loued them: so the sense is plaine, the vse hereof manifold.
1. In that it is said these Elders were approved by faith: here we learn what is the old and ancient way, the right and straight way (that hath no by-ways) to life everlasting: namely, this only, To rely on the mercy of God in Christ for pardon of sin: this is the way wherein all the ancient Elders walked to heaven: this is the way that God hath opened & made unto his Court: it is the Kings high way, the beaten way, common to every one that knows how to walk in it: & deceived none that ever went in it; & beside which, there is no other. Seeing then, God hath consecrated it, & our Elders have trod this way before us, let us follow them; that so we may attain that kingdom whereto it hath brought them.
1. In that it is said these Elders were approued by faith: here wee learne what is the olde and ancient way, the right and straight way (that hath no by-wayes) to life euerlasting: namely, this only, To rely on the mercy of God in Christ for pardon of sin: this is the way wherein all the ancient Elders walked to heauen: this is the way that God hath opened & made vnto his Court: it is the Kings high way, the beaten way, common to euery one that knowes how to walke in it: & deceiued none that euer went in it; & beside which, there is no other. Seeing then, God hath consecrated it, & our Elders haue trode this way before vs, let vs folow them; that so we may attain that kingdom wherto it hath brought them.