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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 matter of this third effect, is the multitude of men, that came of Abraham, and Sarah, by Isaac.
This posterity or multitude, is described by two arguments: 1. By the beginning or root of it; One that was as dead. 2. The quantity or greatness, laid down; 1. Generally to be a multitude and innumerable. 2. Particularly, by two comparisons: 1. As many as the stars in the sky. 2. As the sands by the seashore.
This posterity or multitude, is described by two arguments: 1. By the beginning or roote of it; One that was as dead. 2. The quantity or greatnesse, laid downe; 1. Generally to be a multitude and innumerable. 2. Particularly, by two comparisons: 1. As many as the starres in the skie. 2. As the sands by the seashore.
The first point, is the root and beginning of this multitude, in these words: And therefore sprang there of one, even one that was as dead.
The first point, is the roote and beginning of this multitude, in these words: And therefore sprang there of one, euen one that was as dead.