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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 18: Of Christs Office.Chapter 18: Of Christes Office.
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.
Satisfaction comprehendeth his Passion, and fulfilling the Law.
His passion, is the first part of satisfaction, by which he, he having undergone the punishment of sin, satisfied Gods justice, and appeased his anger for the sins of the faithful. His passion was on this manner.
His passion, is the first part of satisfaction, by which he, he hauing vndergone the punishment of sinne, satisfied Gods iustice, and appeased his anger for the sinnes of the faithfull. His passion was on this manner.
a Somewhat before his death, partly fear arising from a sense of Gods wrath imminent upon him, partly grief possessing, as it were, each part of him, so disturbed his sacred mind, b that inwardly for a while it stroke into him a strange kind of astonishment, or rather oblivion of his duty imposed upon him: and outwardly c made him pray unto his Father, (if he would) to remove that cup from him, the which he did express with no small cry, many tears, and a bloody sweat, d trickling from his body unto the ground. But when he came again unto himself, e he freely yielded himself unto his Father, to satisfy upon the cross for the transgression of man. After this his agony was overpassed, f by Judas his treachery Christ is apprehended, and g first he is brought to Annas, after to Caiaphas, where Peter denieth him: h from Caiaphas is he led bound to Pilate, i Pilate posteth him over to Herod, he k transposteth him again to Pilate, l who acknowledgeth his innocency, & yet condemneth him as an offender. This innocent thus condemned, is m pitifully scourged, crowned with thorns, scoffed, spitted at, spitefully adjudged to the death of the cross n on which, his hands and feet are fastened with nails. Here stayed not his passions, but after all these o he became accursed to God the Father, that is, God poured upon him, being thus innocent, such a sea of his wrath, as was equivalent to the sins of the whole world. He now being under this curse, through the sense and feeling of this strange terror, p complaineth to his Father, that he