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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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Let this teach us to take in good part, the holy and honest endeavours of our brethren; though they cannot do so well as they would, or should. Let us not exact too much, and ⟨p. 244⟩too hastily upon them, but expect in meekness the working of Gods grace: and in the mean time, think well of Sarahs faith, though it be with laughing.
Let this teach vs to take in good part, the holy and honest endeuours of our brethren; though they cannot doe so well as they would, or should. Let vs not exact too much, and ⟨p. 244⟩too hastily vpon them, but expect in meeknesse the working of Gods grace: and in the meane time, thinke well of Sarahs faith, though it be with laughing.
Secondly, here we may learn, that God rather observes and regards good things in his children, then their faults and imperfections: he writes up Sarahs faith, he nameth not her laughing. This is from the goodness of his nature, being goodness it self, and therefore most easily apprehendeth, and takes notice of the least goodness, where-ever he finds it.
Secondly, here we may learne, that God rather obserues and regards good things in his children, then their faults and imperfections: he writes vp Sarahs faith, he nameth not her laughing. This is from the goodnesse of his nature, being goodnesse it selfe, and therefore most easily apprehendeth, and takes notice of the least goodnesse, where-euer hee findes it.
Thus should we deal one with another: what good thing we see in any man, we should observe & commend it: his faults we should not see, but cover and omit them. But the course is contrary: the common table talk of the world, is nothing but of mens faults, and to rip up their imperfections: but if they have never so many good properties, we can bury them all, or pass them over in silence. This argueth the malice and the naughtiness of our nature; which being evil, doth delight in nothing but evil; and being corrupt, feeds, as doth the filthy horse-fly, on nothing but corruption. But let us remember the practice of God, and learn to conceal faults, and use our tongues to talk of the good things and virtues in our brethren: So shall we resemble the Lord, who though Sarah laughed (not in a holy admiration, but in unbelief) yet, forasmuch as afterward she believed, God hath matched her with the notablest believers, and holiest men that have been in the world.