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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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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⟩When sin had made an end of that world, he founded not the second that yet continueth, upon a thousand couples; but by three men and their wives, he multiplied the whole race of mankind, which since have grown from three, to millions of millions. And so here of one old man, and a barren old woman, spring innumerable multitudes.
First, Multitudes came of one. See here the powerfull, and yet the ordinary workes of God, to reare vp goodly & huge buildings, vpon small and weake foundations. So did he in the beginning, and euer since. Indeede, he made, at the first, thousands of starres, because they must be no more then at the first they were; and millions of Angels, intending they shall not multiply; he could also haue made millions of men in a moment: he would not, but onely one couple, Adam and Eue. And of them came the infinite race of mankinde: ⟨p. 257⟩When sinne had made an end of that world, hee founded not the second that yet continueth, vpon a thousand couples; but by three men and their wiues, hee multiplied the whole race of mankinde, which since haue growen from three, to millions of millions. And so here of one olde man, and a barren olde woman, spring innumerable multitudes.