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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
Chapter 30: Of the use of the Law.Chapter 30: Of the vse of the Law.
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The second use is accidentarily, to effect and augment sin, by reason of the flesh, the which causeth man to decline from that which is commanded, and ever to incline to that which is prohibited. Rom. 7.8. Sin took occasion by the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the Law sin is dead. 9. For I once was alive without the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived. 10. But I died, and that commandment, which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me unto death.
The second vse is accidentarily, to effect and augment sinne, by reason of the flesh, the which causeth man to decline from that which is commanded, and euer to encline to that which is prohibited. Rom. 7.8. Sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the Law sinne is dead. 9. For I once was aliue without the Law, but when the commandement came, sinne reuiued. 10. But I died, and that commandement, which was ordained vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.
The third use is, to denounce eternal damnation for the least disobedience, without offering any hope of pardon. This sentence the law pronounceth against offenders, and by it, partly by threatening, partly by terrifying, it reigneth ⟨p. 102⟩and ruleth over man. Rom. 3.19. We know that whatsoever the Law saith, it saith it to them which are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be culpable before God. Gal. 3.10. As many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all that is written in the book of the Law to do them.