A09339:1749
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.
This miraculous and wonderful darkening of the sun doth convince the Jews, that Christ whom they crucified was the Lord of glory, and the Saviour of the world: and it is very like that this was the principal end of this miracle. For whereas neither his doctrine, nor his former miracles could move them to acknowledge him for that Messiah, yet this one work of God doth as it were strike the nail to the head, and stop all their mouths. V. Besides this, whereas at the very instant when Christ was about to make a satisfaction to the justice of his father for our sins; the sun was thus darkened: it teacheth us first to think of the passion of Christ, not as of a light matter, but as one of the greatest wonders of the world, at the sight whereof the very frame of nature was changed: secondly, to think of our own sins, as the vilest things in the world, and that they deserve the intolerable wrath of God: considering that at the time when they were to be abolished, the course of nature even in the very heavens is turned upside down.
This miraculous and wonderfull darkening of the sunne doth conuince the Iewes, that Christ whome they crucified was the Lord of glorie, and the Sauiour of the world: and it is very like that this was the principall ende of this miracle. For whereas neither his doctrine, nor his former miracles could mooue them to acknowledge him for that Messias, yet this one worke of God doth as it were strike the naile to the head, and stop al their mouthes. V. Besides this, whereas at the very instant when Christ was about to make a satisfaction to the iustice of his father for our sinnes; the sunne was thus darkened: it teacheth vs first to think of the passion of Christ, not as of a light matter, but as one of the greatest wonders of the world, at the sight whereof the verie frame of nature was changed: secondly, to thinke of our owne sinnes, as the vilest things in the worlde, and that they deserue the intollerable wrath of God: considering that at the time when they were to bee abolished, the course of nature euen in the very heauens is turned vpside downe.
The fourth sign is, the rending of the veil of the temple from the top to the bottom.