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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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There is a third, a more spiritual or mystical reason: and that reason God had in making Abraham live in Canaan as a stranger; Namely, to teach all Christian men their duty, to the worlds end.
There is a third, a more spirituall or mysticall reason: and that reason God had in making Abraham liue in Canaan as a stranger; Namely, to teach all Christian men their duty, to the worlds end.
Abraham is the Father of the faithful, Rom. 4.11. And this is our honour to be the children of Abraham; we must therefore follow our Father in his faith, and in the practice of it: we must live in this world as Pilgrims and Strangers, even in the midst of all our peace & prosperity, of all our liberty, riches, lands, and possessions; yea, of all our friends & worldly acquaintance. If it seem strange how this can be: I answer, the practice of it consists in six actions.
Abraham is the Father of the faithfull, Rom. 4.11. And this is our honour to be the children of Abraham; we must therfore follow our Father in his faith, and in the practice of it: we must liue in this world as Pilgrimes and Strangers, euen in the midst of all our peace & prosperity, of all our liberty, riches, lands, and possessions; yea, of all our friends & worldly acquaintance. If it seeme strange how this can be: I answere, the practice of it consists in six actions.
First, we must not bathe our selves in the pleasures of this world. Pilgrims take but little delight in their journeys, because they think themselves not at home. This is S. Peters argument: Dearly beloved, as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,