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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.
Justification hath two parts: Remission of sins, and Imputation of Christs righteousness.
Iustification hath two parres: Remission of sins, and Imputation of Christs righteousnes.
Remission of sins, is that part of justification, whereby he that believeth, is freed from the guilt and punishment of sin, by the merits of the passion of Christ. Col. 1.21, 22. You hath he now reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to make you holy, and unblameable, and without fault in his sight. 1. Pet. 2 24. Who, in his own flesh, bare our sins in his body, on the tree, that we being delivered from sin, should live in righteousness, by whose stripes ye were healed.
Remission of sins, is that parte of iustification, wherby he that beleeueth, is freede from the guilte and punishment of sinne, by the merites of the passion of Christ. Col. 1.21, 22. You hath he now reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to make you holye, and vnblameable, and without fault in his sight. 1. Pet. 2 24. Who, in his own flesh, bare our sinnes in his body, on the tree, that we being deliuered from sin, should liue in righteousnes, by whose stripes ye were healed.
Imputation of righteousness, is the other part of Justification, whereby such as believe, having the guilt of their sins covered, are accounted just in the ⟨image 124⟩