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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 18: Of Christs Nativity and Office.Chapter 18: Of Christs Natiuitie and Office.
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.
His death was necessary, that he might confirm to us the Testament, or Covenant of grace promised for our sakes. Heb. 19.15,16. For this cause is he the Mediator of the new Testament, that through death, &c. they which were called, might receive the promise of eternal inheritance: for where a testament is there must be the death of him that made the testament, &c. ver. 17.
His death was necessarie, that he might confirme to vs the Testament, or Couenant of grace promised for our sakes. Heb. 19.15,16. For this cause is he the Mediator of the new Testament, that through death, &c. they which were called, might receiue the promise of eternall inheritance: for where a testament is there must be the death of him that made the testament, &c. ver. 17.
II. Burial, to ratify the certainty of his death.
II. Buriall, to ratifie the certentie of his death.
III. Descension into hell, which we must not understand that he went locally into the place of the damned, but that for the time of his abode in the grave he was under the ignominious dominion of death. Act. 2.24. Whom God hath raised up and loosed the sorrows of death; because it was unpossible that he should be holden of it. Ephes. 4.9. In that he ascended, what was it but that he ⟨p. 32⟩also he descended first into the lowest part of the earth?