A09376:815
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 Civill or Politic respect that they had, was this:
The Ciuill or Politicke respect that they had, was this:
They holding themselves Gods servants, did depend on his word; and therefore did submit themselves to go up and down the world, whither soever God did call them. Being then to remove, every day (they knew not when nor whither) it was therefore both the fittest and cheapest to dwell in tents, which were soon pitched up, and soon taken down. Neither need it to seem strange, that they could live for cold, in those poor thin tents, all the year long; for the country and climate there, was always temperate enough for cold: and rather inclining to too much heat.
They holding themselues Gods seruants, did depende on his word; and therefore did submit themselues to goe vp and down the world, whither soeuer God did call thē. Being then to remooue, euery day (they knew not when nor whither) it was therefore both the fittest and cheapest to dwell in tents, which were soone pitched vp, and soone taken downe. Neither neede it to seeme strange, that they could liue for cold, in those poore thin tents, all the yeare long; for the country and climate there, was alwaies temperate enough for cold: and rather inclining to too much heate.
The Holy or religious respect was this: They held them selves but strangers upon earth, & therefore would not build themselves cities or houses; as looking or caring to live upon ⟨p. 210⟩earth; but dwelled in tents, as seeming desirous, to remove from the earth to heaven; the sooner the better. And this did the Fathers of the old Testament: not that they thought it unlawful to build cities, or dwell in houses; but that they might testify their religion, and their expectation of another world, in the midst of that profane age wherein they lived: wherein there were almost none, that either regarded, remembered, or acknowledged, a world to come.