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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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This one, old couple, Abraham and Sarah, are made by Gods power, the father & mother of many nations: and he and she, of whom the world would have pronounced, they should not have left a name upon the earth, have now millions of children that sprang out of them. Here we may learn, That though GOD work ordinarily, according to the course of Nature, which himself hath established; yet that he is not bound to it, nor will be: he bound it, therefore there is no reason it should bind him. Here we may see the power and prerogative of Gods Majesty.
This one, olde couple, Abraham and Sarah, are made by Gods power, the father & mother of many nations: and he and she, of whom the world would haue pronounced, they should not haue left a name vpō the earth, haue now millions of childrē that sprang out of them. Here we may learn, That though GOD worke ordinarily, according to the course of Nature, which himselfe hath established; yet that he is not bound to it, nor will be: hee bound it, therefore there is no reason it should binde him. Here we may see the power and prerogatiue of Gods Maiestie.
As in the beginning he made to be, those things which were not: so still he calleth things that are not as though they were. Rom. 4.17: and turneth and altereth the state and nature of his creatures as pleaseth him. He can take life from the living man, and leave him dead, he can give life to the dead man, & make him live again. So hath he dealt for the body, and for the soul he hath been no less wonderful.
As in the beginning he made to be, those things which were not: so still he calleth things that are not as though they were. Rom. 4.17: and turneth and altreth the state and nature of his creatures as pleaseth him. He can take life from the liuing man, and leaue him dead, hee can giue life to the dead man, & make him liue againe. So hath he dealt for the body, and for the soule he hath beene no lesse wonderfull.