A09376:975
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, 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.
Secondly, their strength & vitall powers, by which their life is continued, and their soules and bodies kept together, are so much weakened, that they are almost extinguished: whereby it comes to passe, an olde man may feele a manifest defect in all powers of minde and body.
Thirdly, sicknesses or diseases grow upon them in old age: and as their strength faileth, so the force of diseases is redoubled on them: and look what diseases have lurked in their bodies, which either naturally were bred in them, or accidentally taken, they now show themselves more sensibly; and the weaker a man is, the stronger is his sickness. In these three respects, an old man or woman is as good as dead.
Thirdly, sicknesses or diseases grow vpon them in olde age: and as their strength faileth, so the force of diseases is redoubled on them: and looke what diseases haue lurked in their bodies, which either naturally were bred in them, or accidentally taken, they now shew themselues more sensibly; and the weaker a man is, the stronger is his sicknesse. In these three respects, an olde man or woman is as good as dead.
The use hereof is profitable.
The vse hereof is profitable.