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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.
1It must be considered in three times. The first is time before the coming and death of Christ: the second, the time of publishing the gospel by the Apostles: the third, the time after the publishing of the gospel.
1It must be considered in three times. The first is time before the comming and death of Christ: the second, the time of publishing the gospell by the Apostles: the third, the time after the publishing of the gospell.
- 1August. epist. 19. ad Hier.
In the first, it did bind the conscience of the Jews, and the obedience of it was the true worship of God. But it did not then bind the consciences of the Gentiles: for it was the partition wall between them and the Jews. And it did continue to bind the Jews till the very death and ascension of Christ. For them the hand writing of ordinances which was against us was nailed on the cross and cancelled. And when Christ saith that the law and the Prophet endured till John, Luk. 16.16. his meaning is not, that the ceremonial law ended then: but that things foretold by the Prophets, & obscurely prefigured by the ceremonial law, began then more plainly to be preached and made manifest.
In the first, it did binde the conscience of the Iewes, and the obedience of it was the true worship of God. But it did not then bind the consciences of the Gentiles: for it was the partition wall between them and the Iewes. And it did continue to bind the Iewes till the very death and ascension of Christ. For thē the hand writing of ordinances which was against vs was nailed on the crosse and cancelled. And when Christ saith that the lawe and the Prophett indured til Iohn, Luk. 16.16