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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.
Abraham by his faith waited for heaven: But for which? For there are three heavens, or differences of heaven in the scripture.
Abraham by his faith waited for heauen: But for which? For there are three heauens, or differences of heauen in the scripture.
The first, that wherein we live and breath, birds fly, and clouds move.
The first, that wherein we liue and breath, birds flie, and clouds mooue.
The second, that wherein the stars are.
The second, that wherein the starres are.
The third, is that, that is above them both, and is invisible; the seat of Gods glory, where God revealeth his Majesty in special manner to men and Angels. This heaven Abraham waited for. For as for the first, he lived in it: And for the second, he knew it as well as most men; for it is credibly thought, he was a notable Astronomer. So that it was the third and highest heaven, he waited for: which he knew this world could not give him: and therefore expected it in another.