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A golden chain, or the description of theologyA golden chaine, or the description of theologie
A golden chain, or the description of theology containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view of the order whereof, is to be seen in the table annexed. Written in Latin by William Perkins, and translated by an other. Hereunto is adjoined the order which M. Theodore Beza used in comforting troubled consciences.A golden chaine, or the description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods woord. A view of the order wherof, is to be seene in the table annexed. Written in Latine by William Perkins, and translated by an other. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting troubled consciences.
London: printed by Edward Alde, 1591
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.
V. They say, that Baptism truly administered, doth not only wash away the guiltiness, but also the corruption of original sin, in such sort, as that after it is no more accounted a sin. But contrariwise, it is most certain, that, howsoever the guiltiness of sin be taken away, yet that natural pollution and corruption, is not by and by extinguished, but curbed, as it were, and kept under, that it bear not a full sway in man. For if it were otherwise, why should Paul so bewail his original corruption, as he doth, I see, saith he, an other law in my members, rebelling against the law of my mind, and leading me captive to the law of sin, which is in my members: miserable man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? And the same Paul, Rom. 7.13. calleth original sin, the worker of death.
V. They say, that Baptisme truely administred, doth not onely wash away the guiltinesse, but also the corruption of original sinne, in such sort, as that after it is no more accounted a sinne. But contrariwise, it is most certaine, that, howsoeuer the guiltines of sinne be taken away, yet that naturall pollution and corruption, is not by and by extinguished, but curbed, as it were, and kept vnder, that it beare not a ful sway in man. For if it were otherwise, why should Paul so bewaile his originall corruption, as he doth, I see, saith he, an other law in my members, rebelling against the law of my minde, and leading me captiue to the lawe of sinne, which is in my members: miserable man that I am, who shall deliuer me from this bodie of death? And the same Paul, Rom. 7.13. calleth originall sinne, the worker of death.
Again, concupiscence is the very root of actual ⟨image 151⟩sin: therefore it must needs be properly a sin, even after Baptism. James. 1.14