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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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Now put these two together, and they show the perfect excellency of that city, which is both unchangeable and eternal. Where we learn, the great difference betwixt the state of that world, and this present world▪ wherein we live in the body: For, what is there in this world so excellent, so precious, so costly, so artificial; but is subject both to alteration, and in the end to dissolution? The longest day hath his night; and the longest life endeth in death after many miseries, and tossings▪ the longest Empires, and mightiest Monarchies, had their period, after many mutations: the stateliest and strongest cities, ended in ruin, after many civill broils, massacres, and other miseries. So that no glory, no strength, no happiness, nothing at all is there in this world, that is either constant or perpetual, but subject to utter dissolution in the end; and in the mean time, to pitiful alterations. So weak a foundation hath this world, and the best things in it. But contrariwise, the glory of heaven hath such a foundation, as it is both unchangeable and eternal.
Now put these two together, and they shew the perfect excellency of that city, which is both vnchangeable and eternall. Where we learne, the great difference betwixt the state of that world, and this present world▪ wherin we liue in the body: For, what is there in this world so excellent, so p•etious, so costly, so artificiall; but is subiect both to alteration, and in the ende to dissolution? The longest day hath his night; and the longest life endeth in death after many miseries, and tossings▪ the longest Empires, and mightiest Monarchies, had their period, after many mutations: the stateliest and strongest cities, ended in ruine, after many ciuill broiles, massacres, and other miseries. So that no glory, no strength, no happinesse, nothing at all is there in this world, that is either constant or perpetuall, but subiect to vtter dissolution in the end; and in the meane time, to pittifull alterations. So weake a foundation hath this world, and the best things in it. But contrariwise, the glory of heauen hath such a foundation, as it is both vncha•geable and eternall.