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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.
The mortification of •inne, is the first part of sanctification, whereby the power of sin is abated, and crucified in the faithful. Rom. 6.2. How shall we that are dead to sin, live yet therein? 3. Know ye not that all we which have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death? 4. We are buried then with him by baptism into his death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead, by the glory of the father, so we also should walk in newness of life. Eccles. 5.6, 7, 11, 12, 13. Galat. 5.24. They which are Christs ha•e crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts thereof.
The mortification of •inne, is the first part of sanctification, whereby the power of sinne is abated, and crucified in the faithfull. Rom. 6.2. How shall we that are dead to sinne, liue yet therein? 3. Know ye not that all we which haue beene baptized into Iesus Christ, haue beene baptized into his death? 4. We are buried then with him by baptisme into his death, that like as Christ was raised vp from the dead, by the glorie of the father, so we also should walke in newnes of life. Eccles. 5.6, 7, 11, 12, 13. Galat. 5.24. They which are Christs ha•e crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts thereof.
The means that work mortification, is the death & burial of Christ, from whence, sin being by it at the first nipped in the head, proceedeth such a virtue, as doth both keep under the strength that it cannot break out as it would, and in man, as it were in a grave, doth cause it to die and eke putrefy.