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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.
Christs other nature, is his humanity, whereby he, the Mediator, is very man. 1. Tim. 2.5. One God, and one Mediator between God & man, the man Christ Jesus.
Christes other nature, is his humanitie, whereby he, the Mediatour, is very man. 1. Tim. 2.5. One God, and one Mediator between God & man, the man Christ Iesus.
It was necessary that Christ should be man. First that God might be pacified in that nature, wherein he was offended.
II. That he might undergo punishment due to sin, the which the Godhead could not, being void and free from all passion.
II. That he might vndergoe punishment due to sin, the which the Godhead could not, being voyde and free from all passion.
Furthermore, Christ as he is man, is like unto us in all things, sin only excepted.