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This third volume from the Works of William Perkins collection contains Perkins’s A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses, Leading to the Heavenly Canaan, which was his exposition of Hebrews 11. Within, Perkins contends that the whole chapter of Hebrews 11 is meant to urge readers to persevere in faith by persuading them of the excellence of faith. In his characteristic manner, Perkins brings the abiding...

Secondly, hence we learn that till a man be called and his person justified and sanctified, all that ever he does is sin. First, his common actions, his eating, drinking, sleeping, walking, talking are all sins. Yea, secondly, the works of his calling and his labor in the same, though never so just, equal, and upright. Thirdly, further, his civil actions—namely, the practice of civil virtues. His outward gravity, meekness, sobriety, temperance, quietness, uprightness, and all outward conformity are
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