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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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Thus we see generally how great the issue and posterity of Sarah was.
Thus wee see generally how great the issue and posterity of Sarah was.
But it is more particularly enlarged by two comparisons: As many as the stars, in the sky, or as the sands by the sea shore, which are innumerable.
But it is more particularly inlarged by two comparisons: As many as the starres, in the skie, or as the sands by the sea shore, which are innumerable.
His comparisons are two: One taken from the heavens, as many as the stars in the sky. The other, from the earth, as the sands in the Sea. And these two are used by the holy Ghost, being things of incredible number, to express the multitude of the Israelites, that came all from Sarah.
His comparisons are two: One taken from the heauens, as many as the starres in the skie. The other, from the earth, as the sands in the Sea. And these two are vsed by the holy Ghost, being things of incredible number, to expresse the multitude of the Israelites, that came all from Sarah.