A09339:1614
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.
Again, whereas we see so many sorts of men so amiably consenting to take Christ: we may note how all men naturally do hate and abhor him, and his religion. And look as then it was with Christ, so hath it bin with all his members, and will be to the end of the world. They are accounted as the offscouring of the world, men not worthy to live on the face of the earth: as Christ told his Disciples,1 saying, Ye shall be hated of all nations for my names sake.
Againe, whereas we see so many sorts of men so amiably consenting to take Christ: we may note how all men naturally doe hate and abhorre him, and his religion. And looke as then it was with Christ, so hath it bin with all his members, and will be to the ende of the world. They are accounted as the offscouring of the world, men not worthie to liue on the face of the earth: as Christ told his Disciples,1 saying, Ye shall be hated of all nations for my names sake.
Let us also mark how all these came furnished to apprehend Christ: the text saith,1 they came with clubs and staves as unto a thief. All the whole nation of the Jews knew right well that Christ was no man of violence, but meek and lowly: and yet they came armed to apprehend him; as though he had been some mighty potentate that would not have been apprehended, but have resisted them. Where we see the property of an evil conscience, which is to fear where there is no cause at all. This causeth some to be afraid of their own shadows: and if they see but a worm peep out of the ground, they are at their wits end: and as Solomon saith,