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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.
II. Burial, to raise the certainty of his death.
II. Buriall, to raisie the certaintie of his death.
III. Descension into hell, which we must not understand, that he went locally into the place of the damned, but that for the time of his abode in the grave he was under the ignominious dominion of death. Act. 2.24. Whom God hath raised up and loosed the sorrows of death because in […] aposstole […] he should be holden of it. Eph. 4.9. In that •e as•n• ⟨image 33⟩what it is but that he had also descended first into the lowest part of the earth?
III. Descension into hel, which we must not vnderstand, that he went locally into the place of the damned, but that for the time of his abode in the graue he was vnder the ignominious dominion of death. Act. 2.24. Whom God hath raysed vp and loosed the sorrowes of death because in 〈…〉 aposstole 〈…〉 he should be holden of it. Eph. 4.9. In that •e as•n• ⟨image 33⟩