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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.
The Law hath two parts. The Edict, commanding obedience, and the condition binding to obedience. The condition is eternal life to such as fulfil the law: but to transgressors, everlasting death.
The Law hath two parts. The Edict, commanding obedience, and the condition binding to obedience. The condition is eternall life to such as fulfill the law: but to transgressours, euerlasting death.
The Decalogue or ten Commandments, is an abridgement of the whole Law, and the covenant of works. Exod. 34.27. And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words, I have made a covenant with thee, and with Israel. And was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights, and did neither eat bread, nor drink water, and he wrote in the Tables the words of the covenant, even the ten Commandments. 1. King. 8.9. Nothing was in the Ark, save the two Tables of stone, which Moses had put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. Matth. 22.40. On these two commandments hangeth the whole Law and the Prophets.
The Decalogue or ten Commandements, is an abridgement of the whole Law, and the couenant of workes. Exod. 34.27. And the Lord said vnto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenour of these words, I haue made a covenant with thee, and with Israel. And was there with the Lord fourtie daies and fourtie nights, and did neither eate bread, nor drinke water, and he wrote in the Tables the words of the covenant, euen the tenne Commandements. 1. King. 8.9. Nothing was in the Arke, saue the two Tables of stone, which Moses had put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a couenant with the children of Israel, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.