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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
Chapter 16: Of the union of two natures in Christ.Chapter 16: Of the vnion of two natures in Christ.
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.
II. Sanctification, whereby the same humane nature was purified, that is, altogether severed by the power of the Holy Ghost, from the least stain of sin, to the end that it might be holy, and be made fit to dye for others. Luk. 1.35. That holy thing which shall be borne of thee, shall be called the Son of God. 1. Pet. 3.18. Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just, for the unjust. 1. Pet. 2.22. Who did not sin, neither was there guile found in his mouth.
II. Sanctification, whereby the same humane nature was purified, that is, altogither seuered by the power of the Holy Ghost, from the least staine of sinne, to the ende that it might be holye, and be made fit to dye for others. Luk. 1.35. That holy thing which shalbe borne of thee, shall be called the Sonne of God. 1. Pet. 3.18. Christ hath once suffered for sinnes, the iust, for the vniust. 1. Pet. 2.22. Who did not sinne, neither was there guile found in his mouth.
III. Assumption, whereby the Word, namely, the second person in trinity took upon him flesh, ⟨image 28⟩and the seed of Abraham, namely, that his human nature, to the end, that it being destitute of a proper and personal substance, might in the person of the Word obtain it: subsisting, and as it were, being supported of it for ever. Joh. 1.14. That Word was made flesh.