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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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The next doctrine, we may here learn, is; That whereas Sarah, by her faith in Gods promise, conceives and brings ⟨p. 251⟩forth: therefore, children are the immediate blessing of the Lord: for, Sarah bare Isaac, not by any ordinary strength or power of nature, but through faith she received strength to conceive, &c. Neither is this so in her only (wherein there was a miraculous work of Gods power) but in all. Some are indeed barren by constitution, and these cannot conceive, unless by Gods power as Sarah did. But some have no children, who in all natural reason might conceive. For, as God gave the Law, and thereby a gift and power to increase and multiply, Genesis 1.22. So, he reserved the execution of it to himself, and power to alter or dispense, to add, or diminish as it pleaseth him. Therefore saith the Psalmist, Psal. 127.3. Lo, children are the inheritance of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward: And speaking of them, Psal. 128.4, he saith, Lo, thus shall he be blessed that feareth the Lord.
The next doctrine, we may here learne, is; That whereas Sarah, by her faith in Gods promise, conceiues and brings ⟨p. 251⟩forth: therefore, children are the immediate blessing of the Lord: for, Sarah bare Isaac, not by any ordinary strength or power of nature, but through faith shee receiued strength to conceiue, &c. Neither is this so in her onely (wherein there was a miraculous worke of Gods power) but in all. Some are indeede barren by constitution, and these cannot conceiue, vnlesse by Gods power as Sarah did. But some haue no children, who in all naturall reason might conceiue. For, as God gaue the Lawe, and thereby a gift and power to encrease and multiply, Genesis 1.22. So, he reserued the execution of it to himself, and power to alter or dispense, to adde, or diminish as it pleaseth him. Therefore saith the Psalmist, Psal. 127.3