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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.
This also is worthy our meditation, that then a man is well grounded in the doctrine of Christs passion, when his heart ceaseth to sin, and is pricked with the grief of those sins, whereby as with spears he pierced the sides of the immaculate lamb of God. 1. Joh. 3.6. Who so sinneth, neither hath seen him, nor known him. Zach. 12.10. And they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced, and they shall lament for him, as one lamenteth for his only son, and be sorry for him, as one is sorry for his first borne.
This also is worthy our meditation, that then a man is well grounded in the doctrine of Christes passion, when his heart ceaseth to sinne, and is pricked with the griefe of those sinnes, whereby as with speares he pearced the sides of the immaculate lambe of God. 1. Ioh. 3.6. Who so sinneth, neither hath seene him, nor knowen him. Zach. 12.10. And they shall looke vpon me, whom they haue pearced, and they shall lament for him, as one lamenteth for his onely sonne, and be sorrie for him, as one is sorrie for his first borne.
After Christs passion followeth the fulfilling of the Law, by which he satisfied Gods justice in fulfilling the whole Law. Rom. 8.3.4. God sent his own son, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled by us.
After Christes passion followeth the fulfilling of the Lawe, by which he satisfied Gods iustice in fulfilling the whole Law. Rom. 8.3.4. God sent his owne sonne, that the righteousnesse of the law might be fulfilled by vs.