A09353:789
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
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.
A sacrament is that, whereby Christ and his saving graces, are by certain external rites, signified, exhibited, and sealed to a Christian man. Rom. 14.11. He received the sign of circumcision, as the seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, when he was uncircumcised. Gen. 17.11 Ye shall circumcise the for• of your flesh, and it shall be a sign of the covenant […] and you.
A sacrament is that, wherby Christ and his sauing graces, are by certaine externall rites, signified, exhibited, and sealed to a Christian man. Rom. 14.11. He receiued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the righteousnes of the faith which he had, when he was •ncircumcised. Gen. 17.11 Ye shall circumcise the for• of your flesh, and it shalbe a signe of the couenant 〈…〉 and you.
We must not therefore surmise that there is any inherent force or efficacy of sanctifying, in the visible and external sign of the sacrament, as the bath waters have to cure diseases: for the power of sanctification, is appropriate only to the holy Ghost: and Christ hath ordained the sign to signify grace, not to confer it.
We must not therefore surmise that there is any inherent force or efficacie of sanctifying, in the visible and externall signe of the sacrament, as the bath waters haue to cure diseases: for the power of sanctification, is appropriate onely to the holie Ghost: and Christ hath ordeyned the signe to signifie grace, not to conferre it.