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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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And this was not the particular, or singular deed of Abraham alone. All holy men in those days, lived in tents. Gen. 9.21, It is clear that Noah dwelt in tents, though then he was king of all the world. And so did Lot also, as long as he lived with Abraham: Gen. 13.5, Lot h•d sheep, and cattle, and tents. And thus they did, because (as the Apostle saith) they had here no enduring city, but they sought for one to come. Heb. 13.14. And they thought, they ever heard that voice sounding in their ears, (Micah. 2.10.) Arise & depart, for this is not your rest.
And this was not the particular, or singular deed of Abraham alone. All holy men in those daies, liued in tents. Gen. 9.21, It is cleere that Noah dwelt in tents, though then he was king of all the world. And so did Lot also, as long as he liued with Abraham: Gen. 13.5, Lot h•d sheepe, and cattell, and tents. And thus they did, because (as the Apostle saith) they had here no enduring city, but they sought for one to come. Heb. 13.14. And they thought, they euer heard that voice sounding in their eares, (Micah. 2.10.) Arise & depart, for this is not your rest.
Contrariwise, the wicked of the world, because they set up their rest in this world, and cared for no other; they began presently to build them houses, nay cities, (as Cain did even in the beginning) Ge. 4.17. And the Sodomites had a city, even walled (as is likely) for Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom, when the two Angels came to him,