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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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3 The goodness or excellency of a City consists in this; To have good laws, good Magistrates to execute them, and good people performing subjection and obedience. Therefore the kingdom of heaven is the most perfect City ▪ wherein Gods laws are the only laws, and they shall be written in mens hearts: where each one is a sufficient governor of himself, & yet all subject to God; and their God unto them all in all.
3 The goodnesse or excellency of a City consists in this; To haue good lawes, good Magistrates to execute them, and good people performing subiection and obedience. Therefore the kingdome of heauen is the most perfect Citie ▪ wherein Gods lawes are the onely lawes, and they shall be written in mens hearts: where each one is a sufficient gouernour of himselfe, & yet all subiect to God; and their God vnto them all in all.
4 A City is a place, where generally are all necessaries and comforts for mans life: one part of the country hath this commodity, another that; but in the city are all, either brought into it, or of it self. So in heaven are all parts of perfection, and all complements of happiness, to make the state of Gods children there infinitely blessed.
4 A City is a place, where generally are all necessaries and comforts for mans life: one part of the countrey hath this commoditie, another that; but in the citie are all, either brought into it, or of it selfe. So in heauen are all parts of perfection, and all complements of happinesse, to make the state of Gods children there infinitely blessed.
Such a glorious place is the City that was Abraham's hope.