A09376:868
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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I answer, the ground is false: Heaven is not every where; for then it is in Hell: which to affirm, is absurdity, confusion, and impiety. Indeed Gods presence is every where; and where his presence is, there is his power: as where the Kings presence is, there is also his power and authority; and there may be any seat or course of Justice: and so where he is, the Court is. But if you take the Court, for some one of his chief houses, then the saying is not true. But contrariwise, as the Kings power is, wheresoever his presence is; and yet he may have one house more sumptuous, and magnificent than all the rest, which may be called his Court, by an excellency above other: and that Court is not always where the King is, but in some set and certain place, and not removable:
I answer, the ground is false: Heauen is not euery where; for then it is in Hell: which to affirme, is absurditie, confusion, and impietie. Indeede Gods presence is euery wher; and where his presence is, there is his power: as where the Kings presence is, there is also his power and authoritie; and there may be any seate or course of Iustice: and so where he is, the Court is. But if you take the Court, for some one of his chiefe houses, then the saying is not true. But contrariwise, as the Kings power is, wheresoeuer his presence is; and yet hee may haue one house more sumptuous, and magnificent than all the rest, which may bee called his Court, by an excellency aboue other: and that Court is not alwaies where the King is, but in some set and certaine place, and not remoueable:
So Gods power and glory is every where; and yet his most glorious Court, the third heaven, is not every where, but in his limited and appointed place, where Gods glory shineth more than in any other place.
So Gods power and glory is euery where; and yet his most glorious Court, the third heauen, is not euery where, but in his limited and appointed place, where Gods glory shineth more than in any other place.