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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.
To be baptized into the Name of the father, &c. after the receipt of the outward sign of washing, is to be made one of Gods family, which is his Church, and to be partaker of the privileges thereof. Gen. 48.16. The Angel which hath delivered me from all evil, bless the children, and let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Izhak, that they may grow as fish into multitude, in the midst of the earth. Isaiah. 4.1. In that day shall seven women take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and we will wear our own garments: only let us be called by thy name, and take away our reproach.
To be baptized into the Name of the father, &c. after the receit of the outward signe of washing, is to be made one of Gods familie, which is his Church, and to be partaker of the priuiledges therof. Gen. 48.16. The Angell which hath deliuered me from all euill, blesse the children, and let my name be named vpon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Izhak, that they may growe as fish into multitude, in the middes of the earth. Esay. 4.1. In that day shall seuen women take holde of one man, saying, We wil eate our owne bread, and we will weare our owne garmentes: onely let vs be called by thy name, and take away our reproch.
By this it is manifest, that in this washing of baptism, there is sealed and propounded a marvellous solemn covenant and contract: first of God with the baptized, in that God the Father vouchsafed to receive him into favour, the Son to redeem him, the holy Ghost to purify and regenerate him: ⟨image 114⟩secondly of the baptised with God, who promiseth to acknowledge, invocate, and worship none other God, but the true Jehovah, which is the Father, Son, and holy Ghost.