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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.
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First, Is heaven such a City? Here is a notable comfort to the poor and plain country-man, who lives in the simplicity of the country life, tilling the ground, or keeping cattle; and it may be, never saw, or (at the least) never tasted of the pleasures and delights of cities: If he serve God, and keep a good conscience, here is his happiness; he shall be citizen in the high and heavenly Jerusalem: that City which was the hope of the holy men of God in all ages.
First, Is heauen such a City? Here is a notable comfort to the poore and plaine countrey-man, who liues in the simplicity of the countrey life, tilling the ground, or keeping cattell; and it may be, neuer sawe, or (at the least) neuer tasted of the pleasures and delights of cities: If he serue God, and keepe a good conscience, here is his happinesse; hee shall be citizen in the high and heauenly Ierusalem: that City which was the hope of the holy men of God in all ages.
Secondly, this may teach Citizens, in the great, populous ⟨p. 225⟩and pompous cities of this world, to labour also to be Citizens in heaven; for that is a city also, and the best on earth are but shadows of it. And it may shame them that are drowned in the pleasures and delicacies of earthly cities, and care not, nor look after the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem: as it is called, Heb. 12.22. But alas, it seems they care not for this shame; for where is security, wantonness, profaneness, oppressions, so common, as in these great cities? And as in the Apostles times, the country town Berea, was more zealous and religious, than the rich and stately city of Thessalonica,