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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.
A jealous God] This speech is taken from the estate of wedlock: for God ⟨p. 44⟩is called the husband of his Church. Isaiah 54.5. Eph. 5.26,27. And our spiritual worship, is, as it were, a certain marriage of our souls, consecrated unto the Lord. Jer. 2. 2. I remember thee with the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thy marriage, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Here is another argument drawn from a comparison of things that be like. Gods people must alone worship him, because they are linked to him, as a wife is to her husband, unto whom alone she is bound: therefore if his people forsake him, and betroth themselves unto idols, he will undoubtedly give them a bill of divorcement, and they shall be no more espoused unto him.
A iealous God] This speech is taken from the estate of wedlocke: for God ⟨p. 44⟩is called the husband of his Church. Esay 54.5. Eph. 5.26,27. And our spirituall worship, is, as it were, a certaine marriage of our soules, consecrated vnto the Lord. Ier. 2. 2. I remember thee with the kindnes of thy youth, and the loue of thy mariage, when thou wentest after me in the wildernes, in a land that was not sowne. Here is another argument drawne from a comparison of things that be like. Gods people must alone worship him, because they are linked to him, as a wife is to her husband, vnto whome alone she is bound: therefore if his people forsake him, and betroth themselues vnto idols, he will vndoubtedly giue them a bill of diuorcement, and they shall be no more espoused vnto him.