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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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And besides her age, she was also barren, by her natural constitution (as many are and have been) and brought Abraham no children. Yet unto this woman comes a word from God, Sarah shall bear a son. And behold, this aged and barren woman, doth not object desperately these her two hinderances (the one whereof in reason is sufficient against child-bearing) but beyond all impediments, and above reason believeth it shall be so, resting and relying only and wholly on Gods word for it.
And besides her age, she was also barren, by her naturall constitution (as many are and haue beene) and brought Abraham no children. Yet vnto this woman comes a word from God, Sarah shall beare a sonne. And behold, this aged and barren woman, doth not obiect desperatly these her two hinderances (the one whereof in reason is sufficient against childe-bearing) but beyond all impediments, and aboue reason beleeueth it shall be so, resting and relying onely and wholly on Gods word for it.
The use of which notable and faithful practice (so wonderful in a woman) must teach us to rest on Gods word & promise, though we have no reason so to do: for example,
The vse of which notable and faithfull practice (so wonderful in a woman) must teach vs to rest on Gods word & promise, though we haue no reason so to doe: for example,
When we see our friends, or children's bodies, cast into the earth to feed worms, burnt by fire, or eaten by fishes, reason saith, they are gone, they can never be again. We have Gods word and assured promise, The dead shall rise: with their bodies shall they rise, Isaiah. We must therefore believe it, if we will be of the faith of Sarah. God said to her; Age and baroness shall have a child: she believed it. He saith to us, Dust and rottenness shall live again: nay, he hath often said it; and shall not our faith acknowledge the voice of our God, and believe it as she did?