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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.
And for the well-ordering of it, two things are requisite: a pure heart, and skill in the language of Canaan.
The pure heart is most necessary, because it is the fountain of speech, and if the fountain be defiled,1 the streams that issue thence can not be clean.
The pure heart is most necessary, because it is the fountaine of speech, and if the fountaine be defiled,1 the streames that issue thence can not be cleane.
And because the heart of man by nature is a bottomless gulf of iniquity, two things are to be known: first, how it must be made pure: & then how it is always afterward to be kept pure.
And because the heart of man by nature is a bottomlesse gulfe of iniquitie, two things are to be knowne: first, how it must be made pure: & then how it is alwaies afterward to be kept pure.