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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.
The first point, for the manner, is laid down in these words: As in a strange Country.
The first point, for the manner, is laide downe in these words: As in a strange Country.
The meaning is: he esteemed it a strange Country to him, and accounted himself a stranger in it. Against which, it may be objected, that he was familiarly acquainted with Mamre, Aner, and Eshcol, three great & mighty men of that Country: then he & they were confederates together, Gen. 14.13. therefore it seems he lived not like a stranger in the Country.
The meaning is: he esteemed it a strange Country to him, and accounted himself a stranger in it. Against which, it may be obiected, that he was familiarly acquainted with Mamre, Aner, and Eshcol, three great & mighty men of that Country: then he & they were confederates together, Gen. 14.13. therfore it seemes he liued not like a stranger in the Country.
Some answer, that these three were not Canaanites, but ⟨p. 204⟩near a-kin to Abraham, and had other names: but the Text is plain in that place, that Mamre was an Amorite, and the other two were his brethren. Therefore the answer is, that in all likelihood they three were Proselytes; and that by Abraham's godly persuasions they had renounced Idolatry, and were come to the knowledge of the true God, and that they joined with Abraham in the worship of the true God, and so were his converts: whereupon Abraham (as he might lawfully) conversed with them as his familiar friends. And hereof there are two Inducements: