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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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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.
Saul, of a bloody persecutor, he can make a zealous Preacher, Acts 9, even a glorious instrument, and a chosen vessel to carry his name unto the Gentiles, even he who thought to have blotted out the name of Christ, and all that call on that name from under heaven, Acts 9.14.
Saul, of a bloudy persecuter, he cā make a zealous Preacher, Acts 9, euen a glorious instrument, and a chosen vessell to carie his name vnto the Gentiles, euen hee who thought to haue blotted out the name of Christ, and all that call on that name from vnder heauen, Acts 9.14.