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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.
To the godly Reader.
IN Gods Church commonly they who are touched by the spirit, & begin to come on in Religion, are much troubled with fear that they are not Gods children; and none so much as they. Therefore they often think on this point: and are not quiet till they find some resolution.
IN Gods Church commonly they who are touched by the spirit, & begin to come on in Religion, are much troubled with feare that they are not Gods children; and none so much as they. Therefore they often thinke on this point: and are not quiet till they finde some resolution.
The spirit of God, (as best knowing the estate of Gods children) hath penned two parcels of holy scripture, for the full resolving of this case; namely the 15. Psalm and •he first Epistle of Saint John.
The spirit of God, (as best knowing the estate of Gods children) hath penned two parcels of holy scripture, for the full resoluing of this case; namely the 15. Psalme and •he first Epistle of Saint Iohn.
And for the helping of the simple and unlearned, who desire to be informed concerning their estate, I have propounded these two parts of scripture, in the form of a Dialogue: and have joined thereunto a little discourse concerning the same matter, penned in Latin by H. Zanchius, a learned Divine, and now englished.