A09339:1747
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.
Let us take Solomons counsel, Remember thy creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come. If we will not hear the Lord when he calleth us, he will not hear us when we call on him.
Let vs take Salomons counsel, Remēber thy creatour in the daies of thy youth, before the euill daies come. If we will not heare the Lord when he calleth vs, hee will not heare vs when we call on him.
The third sign was, the eclipsing or darkening of the sun from the sixth hour to the ninth. And this eclipse was miraculous. For by the course of nature the sin is never eclipsed, but in the new moon: whereas contrariwise this eclipse was about the time of the passover which was always kept at the full moon. Question is made touching the largeness of it:1 some moved by the words of Luke, who saith that darkness was upon the whole earth, have thought that the eclipse was universal over the whole world: but I rather think that Saint Lukes meaning is, that it was over the whole region or country of Jury. For if such a wonder had happened over the whole world, all Historiographers Greek and Latin and Astronomers, diligent observers of all eclipses, would have made special mention thereof. And though some awriters say that it was over the whole earth, and that it was set down in record both by the Romans and Grecians, yet all their writings prove no more but this, that it was over Jury and Galilee and the countries bordering near unto. The uses of this miracle are manifold. I. This darkening of the sun gives a check to the Jews for their crucifying of Christ: they were not ashamed to apprehend, accuse, and condemn him: yet this glorious creature the sun pulleth in his beams, being as it were ashamed to behold that, which they were not ashamed to do. II. It serves to signify the great judgement of God to come upon the Jews. For when as Christ suffered, darkness was over all the land of Jury, and all the world besides had the light of the sun, so shortly after blindness of mind was over the whole nation of the Jews, and all the world besides saw the sun of righteousness shining unto them in preaching of the gospel.