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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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Lastly, here we see how true it is that David teacheth, Psalm. 15.4, No vile person can come in heaven. And no marvel: for if men thus and thus defamed, cannot be free men in the Cities on earth, built by men; is it likely that sinners, and profane men, that care not for repentance, & regeneration, (for they be the vile men) shall be admitted into that city, whose maker and builder is God? It is the holy city, no unclean thing can enter into it, Revel. 21. It is Gods holy mountain, how shall ungodliness ascend thither? Psalm. 15.1. It is the new Jerusalem: how shall the old man, that is, sinful corruption, get into it? We must therefore cast off the old man, with his lusts, and be renewed in holiness: We must become penitent sinners for our lives past, and new men for hereafter; or else let us not look to have any part in heaven.
Lastly, here wee see how true it is that Dauid teacheth, Psalm. 15.4, No vile person can come in heauen. And no maruell: for if men thus and thus defamed, cannot be free men in the Cities on earth, built by men; is it likely that sinners, and profane men, that care not for repentance, & regeneration, (for they bee the vile men) shall be admitted into that city, whose maker and builder is God? It is the holy citie, no vncleane thing can enter into it, Reuel. 21. It is Gods holy mountaine, how shall vngodlinesse ascend thither? Psalm. 15.1. It is the newe Ierusalem: how shall the olde man, that is, sinnefull corruption, get into it? Wee must therefore cast off the olde man, with his lusts, and bee renewed in holinesse: We must become penitent sinners for our liues past, and newe men for hereafter; or else let vs not looke to haue any part in heauen.