A09339:795
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
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The fifth arising of the former, is an especial persuasion imprinted in the heart by the holy Ghost, whereby every faithful man doth particularly apply unto himself those promises which are made in the Gospel. Matth. 9.2. They brought unto him a man sick of the palsy: and when Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good comfort, thy sins are forgiven thee. Mat. 15.28. O woman, great is thy faith, be it unto thee as thou desirest. Gal. 2.20. I live, yet not I now, but Christ liveth in me: and in that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God, who hath loved me, and given himself for me.
The fift arising of the former, is an especiall perswasion imprinted in the heart by the holy Ghost, whereby euery faithful man doth particularly apply vnto himselfe those promises which are made in the Gospell. Matth. 9.2. They brought vnto him a man sicke of the palsie: and when Iesus saw their faith, he saide vnto the sicke of the palsie, Sonne, be of good comfort, thy sinnes are forgiuen thee. Mat. 15.28. O woman, great is thy faith, bee it vnto thee as thou desirest. Gal. 2.20. I liue, yet not I nowe, but Christ liueth in me: and in that I nowe liue in the flesh, I liue by the faith of the sonne of God, who hath loued me, and giuen himselfe for me.
This persuasion is, & ought to be in every one, even before he have any experience of Gods mercies. Mat. 15.22. A woman, a Canaanite, came out of the same coasts, and cried, saying unto him, Have mercy on me, O Lord, the son of David, my daughter is miserably vexed with a devil, &c. 23,24,25,26,27.