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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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Secondly, observe here how old persons are called half ⟨p. 258⟩dead, or as good as dead; & that is true of them many ways.
Secondly, obserue here how old persons are called halfe ⟨p. 258⟩dead, or as good as dead; & that is true of them many wayes.
First, their years and days, limited them▪ are as good as gone. For, suppose a man should be as sure to live 100. years; as the sun is to run all the day long his course, and at night to go down: Yet as when the sun is past the height, and drawing downward, we say it goeth fast down, and the day hasteth away; So, when a man is past his middle age, when the sun of his life is past the noonsteede, he declineth daily, and draweth fast away, and the night of his life approacheth, with hast and much horror, unless he prevent it.
First, their yeares and dayes, limited them▪ are as good as gone. For, suppose a man should be as sure to liue 100. yeares; as the sunne is to runne all the day long his course, and at night to goe downe: Yet as when the sunne is past the height, and drawing downward, wee say it goeth fast downe, and the day hasteth away; So, when a man is past his middle age, when the sunne of his life is past the noonsteede, he declineth daily, and draweth fast away, and the night of his life approacheth, with hast and much horrour, vnlesse he preuent it.
Secondly, their strength & vital powers, by which their life is continued, and their souls and bodies kept together, are so much weakened, that they are almost extinguished: whereby it comes to pass, an old man may feel a manifest defect in all powers of mind and body.