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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.
Joh. Little children,1 let no man deceive you; he that worketh righteousness, is righteous, as he is righteous. He that committeth sin,2 [though he say he doth believe, and therefore thinks himself justified before God,] is of the Devil, [i. resembleth the Devil, as the child doth the father; and is governed by his spirit:] for the devil sinneth from the beginning [of the world] [which appeareth that] for this purpose was made manifest the Son of God; that he might dissolve the works: [for the beginning and continuance ⟨p. 690⟩of all rebellion and disobedience to God,] of the Devil. 3[And further, to display th•se seducers] whosoever is borne of God sinneth not, [i. doth not keep a course in sin, howsoever he fall by infirmity:] for his seed [i. Gods word cast into the heart by the operation of the Spirit, making a man to spring up into a new creature,] remaineth in him: neither can he sin because he is borne of God.
Ioh. Little children,1 let no man deceiue you; he that worketh righteousnes, is righteous, as he is righteous. He that committeth sinne,2 [though he say he doth beleeue, and therfore thinkes himselfe iustified before God,] is of the Deuill, [i. resembleth the Deuil, as the child doth the father; and is gouerned by his spirit:] for the deuill sinneth frō the beginning [of the world] [which appeareth that] for this purpose was made manifest the Son of God; that he might dissolue the works: [for the beginning and continuance ⟨p. 690⟩of all rebellion and disobedience to God,] of the Deuill. 3[And further, to display th•se seducers] whosoeuer is borne of God sinneth not, [i. doth not keepe a course in sinne, howsoeuer he fall by infirmitie:] for his seed [i. Gods word cast into the heart by the operation of the Spirit, making a man to spring vp into a new creature,] remaineth in him: neither can he sinne because he is borne of God.