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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
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.
Chap. 33. Of Baptism.
Chap. 33. Of Baptisme.
There are two Sacraments. 1. Cor. 10.1. I would not have you ignorant, that all our Fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. verse 2. And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud, and in the sea. v. 3. And did all eat the same spiritual meat. ver. 4. and drank all the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of the spiritual Rock that followed them, which Rock was Christ.) Tertull. 4. book contra Marcion. August. de Symbol. ad Catechum. 4. book 6. Chap.
THere are two Sacraments. 1. Cor. 10.1. I would not haue you ignorant, that all our Fathers were vnder the cloude, and all passed through the sea. verse 2. And were all baptized vnto Moses in the cloude, and in the sea. v. 3. And did all eat the same spirituall meat. ver. 4. and dranke all the same spirituall drinke: (for they dranke of the spirituall Rocke that followed them, which Rocke was Christ.) Tertull. 4. booke contra Marcion. August. de Symbol. ad Catechum. 4. book 6. Chap.
The first Sacrament is that, whereby Christians are initiated, and admitted to the Church of God: and this is Baptism.