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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. 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. He ascended far above all the heavens.
II. His ascention into heauen, which is a true, locall, and visible translation of Christes humane nature from earth into the highest heauen of the Blessed by the vertue and power of his deitie. Act. 1.9. When he had spoken these thinges, while they beheld, he was takē vp: for a cloud tooke him vp out of their sight: And while they looked stedfastly towards heauē, as he went, behold two men stood by thē in white apparell, ⟨image 36⟩which also said, 〈…〉 men of Galile, why stand ye gazing into heauen, this Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen shall come, as ye haue seene him come into heauen. Eph. 4.10. He ascended far aboue all the heauens.