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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.
The third point is, whether we are not lords of Christ, he being thus given unto us. Ans. No: for this donation is not single but mutual. As Christ is given to us, so we again are given to Christ, as he himself saith,1 Those whom thou hast given me, Father, I have kept. And we are given unto him in that our bodies and souls are made his not only as he is God, but also as he is our redeemer: and our sins with the guilt thereof are made his by imputation, and the punishment thereof is wholly laid upon him. This is all the dowry which the Church, being the spouse of Christ, hath brought unto him.
The third point is, whether we are not lords of Christ, he being thus giuen vnto vs. Ans. No: for this donation is not single but mutuall. As Christ is giuen to vs, so we againe are giuen to Christ, as he himselfe saith,1 Those whome thou hast giuen me, Father, I haue kept. And we are giuen vnto him in that our bodies and soules are made his not onely as he is God, but also as he is our redeemer: and our sinnes with the guilt thereof are made his by imputation, and the punishment thereof is wholly laid vpon him. This is all the dowrie which the Church, beeing the spouse of Christ, hath brought vnto him.
The fifth point is, how any man in particular may know that Christ is given unto him of the Father. Ans. When God gives Christ to man, he withal gives man grace and power to receive Christ, and to apprehend him with all his benefits: and this we do when we utterly renounce our selves, this world and all things therein, bewail our sins past, resting on the death of Christ