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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.
But if it be so that ye will have no care of your own souls, go on hardly to your own peril, and so ye shall be sure to enter into the second death, which is eternal damnation.
But if it be so that ye wil haue no care of your own soules, goe on hardly to your owne perill, and so yee shall be sure to enter into the second death, which is eternall damnation.
Secondly, we are taught by the example of Saint Paul to labour above all things,1 to know Christ and the virtue of his resurrection. And this we shall do, when we can say by experience, that our hearts are not content with a formal and drowsy profession of religion, but that we feel the same power of Christ whereby he raised up himself from death to life, to be effectual and powerful in us, to work in our hearts a conversion from all our sins, wherein we ⟨p. 395⟩have lien dead, to newness of life, with care to live godly in Christ Jesus. And that we may further attain to all this, we must come to hear the word of God preached and taught with fear & trembling; having heard the word, we must meditate therein, and pray unto God, not only publicly but privately also, entreating him that he would reach forth his hand, and pull us out of the grave of sin, wherein we have lien dead so long. And in so doing, the Lord of his mercy, according as he hath promised, will send his spirit of grace into our hearts to work in us an inward sense and feeling of the virtue of Christs resurrection. So dealt he with the two disciples that were going to Emmaus; they were occupied in the meditation of Christ his death and passion; and whiles they were in hearing of Christ who conferred with them, he gave them such a measure of his spirit as made their hearts to burn within them.2 And Paul prayeth for the Ephesians, that God would enlighten their eyes, that they might see and feel in themselves the exceeding greatness of the power of God, which he wrought in Christ Jesus, when he raised him from the dead.