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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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREED. I believe in God. &c.AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREED. I beleeue in God. &c.
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.
Thus we see what the Father is. Now to believe in the father, is to be persuaded, that the first person in Trinity, is the father of Christ, and in him my father particularly,1 & that for this cause I intend and desire for ever to put my trust in him.
Thus we see what the Father is. Now to beleeue in the father, is to be perswaded, that the first person in Trinitie, is the father of Christ, and in him my father particularly,1 & that for this cause I intend and desire for euer to put my tru•t in him.
The duties which we may learn hence are manifold. And here we have occasion offered first of all to consider who is our father by nature. I shall say to corruption (saith Job) thou art my father: and to the worm, thou art my mother: 1seeing God vouchsafeth this great prerogative to them that love him, that he will be their father: therefore Job in consideration hereof would have every man to have recourse to his own natural condition, to see who is his father by nature• Job saith, corruption is his father: but if we mark well the condition of our nature, we shall further see every man to be the child of wrath, and that Satan is his father: for so long as a man walks in his sins (which every man doth by nature) so long doth he show himself to be the lively child of the devil. And thus Christ reasoneth against the Scribes and Pharisees. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.