A09339:1795
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 much of the manner of Christs resurrection. Now follows the time when he rose again, and that is specified in the Creed, The third day he rose again. Thus saith our Saviour Christ unto the Pharisees,1 As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whales belly: so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. And though Christ was but one day and two pieces of two days in the grave;2 (for he was buried in the evening before the Sabbath, and rose in the morning the next day after the Sabbath) yet is this sufficient to verify this saying of Christ. For if the analogy had stood in three whole days, then Christ should have risen the fourth day. And it was the pleasure of God that he should lie thus long in the grave, that in might be known that he was throughly dead: and he continued no longer, that he might not in his body see corruption. Again, it is said, Christ rose again in the end of the Sabbath,3 when the first day of the week began to dawn. And this very time must be considered, as the real beginning of the new spiritual world, in which we are made the sons of God. And as in the first day of the first world, light was commanded to shine out of darkness upon the deeps: so in the first day of this new world, the sun of righteousness riseth and gives light to them that sit in darkness, and dispels the darkness that was under the old Testament. And here let us mark the reason why the Sabbath day was changed. For the first day of the week, which was the day following the Jews sabbath, is our sabbath day, which day we keep holy in memory of the glorious resurrection of Christ:4 and therefore it is called the Lords day. And it may not unfitly be termed aSunday, though the name came first from the heathen, because on this day the blessed sun of righteousness rose from death to life.
Thus much of the manner of Christs resurrection. Now followes the time when he rose againe, and that is specified in the Creede, The third day he rose againe. Thus saith our Sauiour Christ vnto the Pharises,