A09353:814
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.
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.
By this it is manifest, that in this washing of baptisme, there is sealed and propounded a maruellous solemne couenant and contract: first of God with the baptized, in that God the Father vouchsafed to receiue him into fauour, the Sonne to redeeme him, the holy Ghost to purifie and regenerate him: ⟨image 114⟩secondly of the baptised with God, who promiseth to acknowledge, inuocate, and worship none other God, but the true Iehouah, which is the Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost.
The external and visible matter of baptism is water: for the minister may not baptize with any other liquor, but only with natural water.
The externall and visible matter of baptisme is water: for the minister may not baptize with anie other liquor, but onely with naturall water.
This was the judgement of the Primitive Church. For when as a certain minister, for want of water, took sand, and baptized one with that, the party thus besanded, was further baptized, the former being esteemed of none effect. Niceph. hist. 3. book. 33. chap.