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A Golden Chain
A golden chain: or The description of theology containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seen in the table annexed. Hereunto is adjoined the order which M. Theodore Beza used in comforting afflicted consciences.A golden chaine: or The description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seene in the table annexed. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting afflicted consciences.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1600Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1600
Chapter 50 › Error 5: The V. error.Chapter 50 › Error 5: The V. errour.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The V. error.
The V. errour.
By Baptism rightly administered, not only the guiltiness, but also the corruption of original sin, is so washed away as that it is not afterward properly accounted a sin.
By Baptisme rightly administred, not only the guiltines, but also the corruption of originall sin, is so washed away as that it is not afterward properly accounted a sinne.
The Confutation.
We contrarily do thus distinguish of sin. Sin in regard of the guiltiness of Gods wrath, and also in regard of the punishment together by one act is taken away in Baptism: but in regard of that error and corruption of nature, it is not at the first quite taken away, but successively, and by little and little it is extinguished; even as our renovation wrought by the holy Ghost, is by little and little begun and increased in us. Reasons. I. Paul would not so greatly bewail his original sin, if after Baptism it ceased any more to be sin. I see, saith he, another law in my members, rebelling against the law of my mind, and leading me captive unto the law of sin which is in my members. O miserable man • who shall deliver me from this body of death? II. Original sin, is called a sin out of measure sinful.