A09376:966
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
One; that is, one woman Sarah: or at the most, one couple, Abraham, and Sarah. And this one was no better then dead. Not dead properly and fully: for, none are so dead, whose souls and bodies are not separate: but, as dead, that is, as good as dead, or half dead; meaning, that they were altogether unfit for generation of children, the strength of nature being decayed in them; Abraham being 100. and Sarah 90. years old. And if this be true of Abraham, who was past age, how much more is it of Sarah, who was both past age, and was also barren in her best age?
One; that is, one woman Sarah: or at the most, one couple, Abraham, and Sarah. And this one was no better then dead. Not dead properly and fully: for, none are so dead, whose soules and bodies are not separate: but, as dead, that is, as good as dead, or halfe dead; meaning, that they were altogether vnfit for generation of children, the strength of nature being decayed in them; Abraham being 100. and Sarah 90. yeares olde. And if this be true of Abraham, who was past age, how much more is it of Sarah, who was both past age, and was also barren in her best age?
Here we are to note and learn many things:
Here we are to note and learne many things:
First, Multitudes came of one. See here the powerful, and yet the ordinary works of God, to rear up goodly & huge buildings, upon small and weak foundations. So did he in the beginning, and ever since. Indeed, he made, at the first, thousands of stars, because they must be no more then at the first they were; and millions of Angels, intending they shall not multiply; he could also have made millions of men in a moment: he would not, but only one couple, Adam and Eve. And of them came the infinite race of mankind: ⟨p. 257⟩