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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.
This mutual, and, as I may say, sacramental relation, is the cause of so many figurative speeches, and metonymies, which are used: as, when one thing in the Sacrament is put for another. As, I. The sign is used for the thing signified. Exod. 12. 11. Ye shall eat it (namely the Lamb) in hast, for it is the Lords passover. Joh. 6. 52. I am the living bread, which came down from heaven: if any eat of this bread, he shall live for ever, and the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the ⟨p. 106⟩world. 1. Cor. 5.7. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. 1. Cor. 10.17. We that are many, are one bread, and one body, because we are all partakers of one bread. II. The name of the thing signified is given to the sign: as, The bread is Christs body, the cup is Christs blood. 1. Cor. 11.24. Math. 26.28. III. The effect of the thing signified is given to the sign, as Circumcision is a covenant, Gen. 17. 10. Act. 7.8. The cup is the new Testament in Christs blood. Luk. 22.16. Baptism is the washing of the new birth. Tit. 3.5. IV. That which properly belongeth to the sign, is attributed to the thing signified. Deut. 10.16. Circumcise the foreskin of your hearts. Joh. 6.53. Unless ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye shall have no life in you.