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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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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.
First, they must therefore be advised to prepare themselves for death. Every man is to prepare, I confess: then if every man, especially they that be old: The young man may die, the old man must die: the youngest cannot live always, the old man cannot live long; the aged mans grave is as it were made already, & his one foot is in it. And this is not mans conceit alone, but Gods own judgement, who as we see here, calls an old man as good as dead: and that not so much in regard, that he is sure to die, as that he is near it: Therefore as every man, young or old, is to make ready, because his time is unknown, and no man is sure, that he ⟨p. 259⟩shall live to be old, and as the Psalmist singeth, Every man in his best estate is altogether vanity,