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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.
The end of Christs resurrection, was to show that his satisfaction, by his passion & death, was fully absolute. For one only sin would have detained the Mediator under the dominion of death, though he had fully satisfied for all the rest. 1. Cor. 15.17. If Christ be not raised, your faith is in vain: ye are yet in your sins. Rom. 4.25. Who was delivered to death for our sins, and is risen again for our justification.
The end of Christs resurrectiō, was to shew that his satisfactiō, by his passiō & death, was fully absolute. For one only sin wold haue deteined the Mediator vnder the dominion of death, though he had fully satisfied for al the rest. 1. Cor. 15.17. If Christ be not raised, your faith is in vaine: ye are yet in your sins. Rom. 4.25. Who was deliuered to death for our sinnes, and is risen againe for our iustification.
II. His ascension into heaven, which is a true, local, and visible translation of Christs humane nature from earth into the highest heaven of the Blessed by the virtue and power of his deity. Act. 1.9. When he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up: for a cloud took him up out of their sight: And while they looked steadfastly towards heaven, as he went, behold two men stood by them in white apparel, ⟨image 36⟩which also said, […] men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing into heaven, this Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall come, as ye have seen him come into heaven. Eph. 4.10