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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
Chapter 14: Of the punishment of sin.Chapter 14: Of the punishment of sinne.
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II. The soul is punished with trembling of conscience, care, trouble, hardness of heart, and madness. Deut. 28.28. The Lord shall smite thee with ⟨p. 23⟩madness, and with blindness, and with astonying of heart.
II. The soule is punished with trembling of conscience, care, trouble, hardnesse of heart, and madnesse. Deut. 28.28. The Lord shall smite thee with ⟨p. 23⟩madnesse, and with blindnesse, and with astonying of heart.
III. The whole man is punished, 1. with fearful subjection to the regiment of Satan. Col. 1.13. Which freed us from the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Sonne. Heb. 2. 14. He also himself took part with them, that he might destroy through death, him that had power of death, that is, the devil. 2. A separation from the fellowship of God, and trembling at his presence. Eph. 4. 18. Having their cogitation darkened, and being strangers from the life of God. Gen. 3. 10. I heard thy voice in the garden, and was afraid, because I was naked, therefore I hid my self. 3. Upon a mans goods, divers calamities and damages. Deut. 28.29. Thou shalt ever be oppressed with wrong, and be poled, and no man shall succour thee, &c. to the end of the chapter. To this place may be referred distinction of Lordships: and of this cometh a care to enlarge them, and bargaining with all manner of civill servitudes. 4. The loss of that Lordly authority, which man had over all creatures; also their vanity, which is not only a weakening, but also a corrupting of that excellency of the virtues and powers which God at the first put into them.