A09339:1731
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.
1The fourth point is, concerning the time of Christs oblation, which he himself calleth the acceptable year of the Lord: alluding unto an other year under the law called the year of Jubilee,2 which was every fifty year among the Jews, in which at the sound of a trumpet all that had set or sold their possessions received them again: all that were bondmen were then set at liberty. This Jubilee was but a figure of that perfect deliverance which was to be obtained by Christs passion, which was not temporary deliverance for every fifty year, but an eternal freedom from the bondage of sin, hell, death, and condemnation. And the preaching of the word is the trumpet sounded which proclaimeth unto us freedom from the kingdom of darkness, and invites us to come and dwell in perfect peace with Christ himself. Well, if the year of perpetual Jubilee be now come, in what a wretched estate all our loose and blind people that esteem nothing of that liberty which is offered to them, but choose rather to live in their sins, and in bondage under Satan and condemnation, then to be at freedom in Christ.
1The fourth point is, concerning the time of Christs oblation, which he himselfe calleth the acceptable yeare of the Lord: alluding vnto an other yere vnder the law called the yeare of Iubile,2 which was euery fiftie yeare among the Iewes, in which at the sound of a trumpet all that had set or sold their possessions receiued them againe: all that were bondmen were then set at libertie. This Iubile was but a figure of that perfect deliuerance which was to be obtained by Christs passion, which was not temporarie deliuerance for euery fiftie yeare, but an eternall freedome from the bondage of sinne, hell, death, and condemnation. And the preaching of the word is the trumpet sounded which proclaimeth vnto vs freedome from the kingdome of darknes, and inuites vs to come and dwell in perfect peace with Christ himselfe. Well, if the yeare of perpetuall Iubile be now come, in what a wretched estate all our loose and blind people that esteeme nothing of that libertie which is offered to them, but choose rather to liue in their sinnes, and in bondage vnder Satan and condemnation, then to be at freedome in Christ.