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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
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.
Joseph saw the sun and the moon and seven stars worshipping him, nevertheless ere that came to pass God laid him where he could see neither sun, nor moon, neither any star of the sky, and that many years, and also undeserved, to nurture him, to make him humble and meek, and to teach him Gods ways, and to make him apt and meet for the room and honour again he came to it; that he might be strong in the spirit to minister it well. God promised the children of Israel a land with rivers of milk and honey, yet he brought them forth the space of forty years into a land wherein no rivers of milk and honey were, but where so m•ch as a drop of water was not, to nurture and teach them as a father doth his son, and to do them good at the latter end, to subdue their cankered nature, to make them strong in the spirit to use his benefits aright. Lastly, God promised David a kingdom, and immediately stirred up Saul against him to persecute him, and to hunt him as men do hares with grey-hounds, and to ferret him out of every hole, and that for the space of many years, to turn him, to make him to mortify his lusts, to make him to feel his own diseases: in fine, to make him a good man, and a good king.
Ioseph saw the sunne and the moone and seuen starres worshipping him, neuerthelesse ere that came to passe God laide him where he could see neither sunne, nor moone, neither any starre of the skie, and that many yeares, and also vndeserued, to nurture him, to make him humble and meeke, and to teach him Gods waies, and to make him apt and meete for the roome and honour againe he came to it; that he might be strong in the spirit to minister it well. God promised the children of Israel a land with riuers of milke and honie, yet he brought them forth the space of fourtie yeares into a land wherein no riuers of milke and honie were, but where so m•ch as a drop of water was not, to nurture and teach them as a father doth his sonne, and to doe them good at the latter ende, to subdue their cankred nature, to make them strong in the spirit to vse his benefits aright. Lastly, God promised Dauid a kingdome, and immediatly stirred vp Saul against him to persecute him, and to hunt him as men doe hares with gray-hounds, and to ferret him out of euery hole, and that for the space of many yeares, to turne him, to make him to mortifie his lusts, to make him to feele his owne diseases: in fine, to make him a good man, and a good king.