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A77788	A golden-chain, or, A miscelany of divine sentences of the sacred Scriptures, and of other authors. Collected, and linked together for the souls comfort. By Edward Bulstrode of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.	Bulstrode, Edward, 1588-1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing B5443; Thomason E1618_2; ESTC R209646	90,388	257

up in us a certain knowledge of our election but also to stirr up in us a Christian and a godly strife and so to strive to make this our calling and election sure Remembring without ceasing 1 Thess 1.3 4. your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our father Knowing brethren beloved your election of God Wherefore the rather 2 Pet. 1.10 brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall For so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly 2 Pet. 1.11 into the everlasting kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Neither must we be carelesse in this great weighty matter of our election to salvation as to say as some very prophanely use to say what need I be so mindfull and carefull hereof If I am elected I am elected if otherwise it be appointed of God all my study and endeavour cannot effect it Such prophane resolutions must be ever withstood by us beaten down and suppressed for we must be ever very active herein and know thus much as a Father well observeth being this namely Quod Deus qui elegit te ad salvationem elegit te etiam ad media salvationis That God which hath chosen and elected thee unto salvation hath also elected and chosen thee to use the means to come unto salvation And as another Father saith St. Augustin Qui creavit te sine te non salvabit te sine te He which hath created thee without thee will not save thee without thee St. Augustin Work out your own salvation Philip. 2.12 13. with fear and trembling For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure For God hath not called us unto uncleannesse but unto holinesse 1 Thess 4.7 Wherefore 1 Pet. 1.13 14 15 16. gird up the loyns of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Iesus Christ As obedient children not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance But as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation Because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy For I am the Lord your God Levit. 11.44 ye shall therefore sanctifie your selves and ye shall be holy for I am holy And the Lord spake unto Moses Levit. 19.1 2. saying Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel and say unto them Ye shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy But ye are a chosen generation 1 Pet. 2.9 a royall priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darknesse into his marvellous light Which in time past were not a people 1 Pet. 2.10 but are now the people of God which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy As touching the election Rom. 11.28 29. they are beloved for the fathers sake For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance Who hath saved us 2 Tim. 1.9 10. and called us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Iesus before the world began But now is made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Iesus Christ who hath abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel The foundation of God standeth sure having this seal 2 Tim. 2.18 The Lord knoweth them that are his and let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity But this one thing I do Philip. 3.13 14 15. forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I presse toward the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded Put on therefore Collos 3.12 13 14 15. as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercy kindnesse humblenesse of mind meeknesse long-suffering Forbearing one another and forgiving one another And above all things put on charity which is the bond of perfectnesse And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one body and be ye thankfull God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise 1 Cor. 1.27 29 30 31. and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty That no flesh should glory in his presence But of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdome and righteousnesse and sanctification and redemption That according as it is written He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord. Thus saith the Lord Jer. 9.23 24. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome neither let the mighty man glory in his might nor let the rich man glory in his riches But let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindnesse judgement and righteousnesse in the earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord. But some one may happily say How shall I come to have a knowledge of this my election unto salvation To such a one it may be thus answered Notes of our Election Observe with thy self whether thou feelest and findest in thy self the effectuall notes and signes of thy election unto salvation working in thee or not as namely First What powerfull effect the word of God which we have so often heard preached unto us by way of reformation change and alteration hath wrought in us Secondly How we find and feel our selves to decline from sin and sinfull courses and whether we find in our selves a hatred of sin a strife and an endeavour in our selves to shun and avoid the same and all occasions which may any wayes draw us thereinto Thirdly How we find our selves to stand affected to vertue vertuous actions and goodnesse and whether we find in our selves a delight therein whether there be such a progresse in us in the way of godlinesse as S. Peter maketh mention of According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godlineffe 2 Pet. 1.3 4 5 6 7 8 9. through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and vertue Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust And besides this giving all diligence adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse And to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ

Scriptures 6. Together with ten preparatory directions for our better hearing of the Word of God preached unto us 7.8 9. And four speciall observations shewing that all our abilities come from God alone who enableth us to hear his Word aright and with profit being preached unto us 10.11 Thirdly How that we are to take into our serious consideration the powerfulnesse of the Word of God together with the great benefits we receive thereby 12.13 14 15. And herein is set forth and shewed the various appellations of the Word of God in the holy Scriptures 16.17 Fourthly How that the due consideration by us had in our reading hearing and meditations thereon ought to stirr up in us a love thereunto and a rejoycing therein 18 19. Fifthly How that these precedent observations being thus made use of by us will then work this good effect upon us as to make the VVord of God which we have with the precedent cautions thus read heard and meditated on to be a perpetuall comfort un-unto us both in life and death 19. CHAP. II. Of the severall Books mentioned in the Scriptures wherein is set forth the severall names of the said Books Together with an observation there of the difference between the wicked and the righteous in the day of Judgement Fol. 20 21 22 23. As also touching certain Books named in the Scripture and now not to be found 24 25. As also touching two other books the one Liber Providentiae the Book of Gods Providence and the second Liber Iudicii the Book of Gods Judgements 25 26. As also touching another book being Codex Conscientiae the Book of a mans Conscience Together with a short tract concerning Conscience the three properties or qualities of the conscience 26 27. With a description also what conscience is and of the testimony of the conscience accusing or excusing before God 27 28 29. And also of Gods presence every where beholding of all our actions which should make us the more carefull and vigilant of our selves and of all our actions 29 30. As also touching a guilty Conscience and a good Conscience and how the same are qualified and of the three speciall qualities of a good Conscience together with a more particular description of the conscience and shewing what the same is 30 31. And how that the conscience of a man is as a bridle to keep him from offending but as a whip or lash afterwards 31. And how that a mans very countenance will discover his offence and so shewing that though a man may be free from the Judgement of another yet he cannot be free from his own Judgement 31 32. CHAP. III. Of the Old Testament and of the New or of the Law and of the Gospel and of the difference between them wherein are set forth ten differences between the Law and the Gospel as appeareth Fol. 33 34 36 37 39 52 53 54 58. And here is set forth likewise the fruit of a sanctified life here 34. And also the threefold being of man 34 35. As also of the good and glad tidings of salvation the Gospel bringeth unto us 37 38 39. And here is shewed how that the Law tieth us to a due performance of all which the Law requireth to be done by us 39 40 41. How that the Gospel tieth us onely to believe aright in God and in his son Jesus Christ and looks onely upon the eye of our faith 42 43 44 45 46 47 48. Together with the two reasons why Christ used this speech saying Who touched me after that the woman having an issue of bloud came behind him and touched him 43 44 45 46. Herein is likewise shewed how that the just shall live by faith 47 48 49. Here also is shewed that with the heart man believeth unto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation 49. And how we are the children of God by faith and the power of faith Together with the fruits thereof fully described 49 50 51. Here is also further shewed how that Christ in the Old Testament was hid and covered as under a veil But in the New Testament Christ is there revealed unto us and the veil of the Old Testament by him taken away 52. The mystery of godlinesse described 52 53. Here is likewise set forth unto us how that in the Old Testament we have the Law given by Moses but in the New Testament we have grace and mercy brought to us by Christ Jesus 53 54. Here is also set forth how that by the law we have the knowledge of sin and of Gods curse which followed thereupon 54 55. But by the Gospel we have the knowledge of the free pardon of our sins by the death of Christ and conferred unto us by his grace 55 56 57. Here is also shewed that God who spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things 57. Together also with the great benefits that redoundeth to the elect children of God 57 58. And how that Christ hath delivered us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us 58. Again here is shewed how that the Law is as our school-master to bring us unto Christ and to shew us the way to him but the Gospel bringeth Christ himself unto us being the way the truth and the life 58 59. Here are also set forth severall variations of the Fathers upon these words of our Saviour Jesus Christ sc I am the way the truth and the life 59 60 61. Together also with St. Bernards four-fold venite of the world the flesh of the Devil and of Christ with their severall rewards to their followers 61 62. With an invitation of all to come unto Christ and to take his yoke being easie upon us 62. Here also is set forth the fruits and effects of Gods foreknowledge in the way of predestination election justification and glorification 62 63 64. And how that our salvation dependeth on the mercy of God in and through Jesus Christ our Saviour being justified by his grace 64. Together with a full manifestation unto us of the free grace and bounty of God unto us in the means of our salvation and for the better grounding of our faith a three-fold course is observed thereby to tye us the faster unto him 64 65. Here is also shewed that God doth inspire us by his Word and that this ought to raise up in us a more certain knowledge of our election and so to stirr up in us a Christian and godly strife to make our calling and election sure 65 66. Here is also shewed that we must not be carelesse in the great matter of our election to salvation but to be active herein and use the meanes which God hath appointed for us to use and worketh in us ability to do and perform the same 66 67 68 69. Here is also set forth unto us three effectuall notes and signs of our

set and the books were opened But thou O Daniel Daniel cha 12. ver 4. shut up the words and seal the book even to the time of the end many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased And these shall go away into everlasting punishment Matthew cha 25. ver 46. but the righteous into life eternall For the hour is coming John chap. 5. ver 28 29. in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice And shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the Resurrection of damnation Let them be blotted out of the book of the living Psalm 69. ver 28. and not be written with the righteous He that overcometh Revelation chap. 3. ver 5. the same shall be clothed in white raiment and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life but I will confesse his name before my father and before his angels And I entreat thee also Philippians ch 4. ver 3. true yoke-fellow help these women which laboured with me in the Gospel with Clement also and with other my fellow labourers whose names are in the book of life And it was given unto him Revelation ch 13. ver 7 8. to make war with the Saints and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lambe slain from the foundation of the world The beast that thou sawest was Revelation chap. 17. ver 8. and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse pit and go into perdition and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder and whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is And I saw the dead small Revelation ch 20. ver 12 13. and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works And the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works And death Revelat. chap. 20. ver 14 15. and hell were cast into the lake of fire And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecie Revelat. chap. 2 r 2. ve 19. God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy City and from the things which are written in this book Books named in the Scripture and not to be found as namely Is not this written in the book of Iasher the marginall note of an old Bible Ioshua chap. 10. ver 13. being as some read it In the book of the righteous meaning Moses The Chaldee text reading In the book of the Law But it is like that it was a book thus named which is now lost All this in the marginall notes of an old Bible As it is written in the book of Iasher 2 Samuel cha 11. ver 18. or righteous as the marginall note is Wherefore it is said in the book of the warres of the Lord Numbers chap. 21. ver 14. or of the battels which by a marginall note in an old Bible seemeth to be the book of the Iudges or a book which is lost Concerning the acts of David the king behold 1 Chron. chap. 29. ver 29. they are written in the book of Samuel the Seer and in the book of Nathan the prophet and in the book of Gad the Seer The marginall note in an old Bible is that the books of Nathan and Gad are thought to have been lost in the captivity And there shall in no wise Revelation ch 21. ver 27. enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination nor maketh a lye but they which are written in the Lambes book of life There is as One well observeth a two fold Book of God as namely First there is Liber Providentiae that is the Book of Gods Providence whereby we are taught to know our duties to God and to referre our selves and all our actions to his Divine Providence and mercy and to use his good blessings on us bestowed to his glory All which if we thus do we shall then receive all things necessary in this world and life eternall in the world to come But if we are disobedient and do contrary to all this then there is a second Book which will be opened against us as namely Secondly there is Liber Judicii the Book of Gods Judgement whereby we shall receive all the Judgements of God therein mentioned and pronounced against the wicked and disobedient Then shall the king say unto them Matthew cha 25. ver 34. on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Then shall he say also unto those Matthew cha 25. ver 41. on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels It is observed by a Father That there is another book and that is called Codex Conscientiae the book of a mans conscience St. Chrysostome observeth thus much S. Chrysostom sc That Conscientia est codex in quo quotidiana nostra peccata rescribuntur The Conscience is a book in the which our daily sinnes and offences are writ down registred and recorded against us as S. Chrysostome observeth And as touching Conscience There is a Threefold quality of the Conscience Of Conscience as One observeth as namely First Testificare de praeterito that is to bear testimony and witnesse of what is done by us and past Secondly Accusare vel excusare to accuse us of what we have done or else to excuse us Thirdly Solvere vel ligare That is either to let us loose or else to bind us fast up For when the Gentiles Romans chap. 2. ver 14.15.16 which have not the Law do by nature the things contained in the Law these having not the Law are a Law unto themselves Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts their Conscience also bearing witnesse and their thoughts mean while accusing or else excusing one another In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel Conscientia est quasi cordis scientia S. Bernard ut S. Bernard The conscience is as it were the very knowledge of the heart By strength stratagems and policy men do overcome their enemies But God

1.1 2 3 4. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father full of grace and truth That which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the word of life For the Life was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and shew unto you that eternall life which was with the Father and was manifested unto us That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also might have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Iesus Christ And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full Exod. 20.2 Eighthly Again in the old Testament we have the Law given by Moses But in the new Testament we have Grace and Mercy brought unto us by Christ Iesus And of all his fulness have all we received Iohn 1.16 and grace for grace For the Law was given by Moses Iohn 1.17 but grace and truth came by Iesus Christ Ninthly Again by the Law we have the knowledge of Sin and of Gods curse which followed thereupon and of the Iudgements denounced against sinners and that not only of a death temporal but even of a death eternal both of body and soul And the Lord God took the Man Gen. 2.15 16 17. and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it And the Lord God commanded the Man saying of every Tree of the Garden thou mayest freely eat But of the Tree of knowledg of good and evill thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die And unto Adam he said Gen. 3.17 19. because thou hast hearkned unto the voice of thy Wife and hast eaten of the Tree of which I commanded thee saying Thou shalt not eat of it Cursed is the Ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the daies of thy life In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground for out of it was thou taken for Dust thou art and unto Dust shalt thou return For the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 For when we were in the flesh Rom. 7.5 the motions of sin which were by the Law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death What shall I say then Rom. 7.7 8 9 10 11. is the Law sin God forbid Nay I had not known sin but by the Law for I had not known Lust except the Law had said Thou shalt not covet But sin taking occasion by the Commandement wrought in me all manner of concupiscence for without the Law sin was dead For I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandement came sin revived and I died And the Commandement which was ordaiued to life I found to be unto death For Sin taking occasion by the Commandement deceived me and by it slew me But by the Gospel we have the knowledge of the free Pardon and full forgiveness of our Sins purchased for us by the death and passion of Christ our Saviour and conferred unto us by his grace and favour he undergoing the full vial of Gods wrath and judgement denounced against sin and Sinners even the whole curse of the Law he endured for us who died for our Sins and rose again for our justification that we should dye unto sin and live unto righteousness Rom. 5.6 8. For then when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were Sinners Christ died for us Who was delivered for our Offences Rom. 4.25 and was raised again for our justification Much more then being now justified by his blood Rom. 5.9 we shall be saved from wrath through him For if when we were enemies Rom. 5.10 we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life Who was delivered for our offences Rom. 4.2 and was raised again for our justification O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. The sting of Death is Sin and the strength of Sin is the Law But thanks be unto God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Iesus Christ Who his own self bare our sins 1 Pet. 2.24 in his own body on the Tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed But he was wounded for our transgressions Isaiah 53.5 6. he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our Peace was upon him and with his stripes are we healed All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all If God be for us Rom. 8.31 32. who can be against us He that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect Rom. 8.33 34. it is God that justifyeth Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Christ hath delivered us from the curse of the Law Gal. 3.13 being made a curse for us For it is written Cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree For he that is hanged Deut. 21.23 is accursed of God Tenthly Again the Law was as our School-master to bring us unto Christ to shew us the way to him and to direct us therein aright But the Gospel bringeth Christ himself unto us who is the way the truth and the life offering of himself to be received by us by a true and lively faith Wherefore the Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by Faith But after that Faith is come Ga. 3.24 25. we are no longer under a Schoolmaster For ye are all the Children of God by faith Iohn 14.1 6. in Christ Iesus Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me Iesus saith I am the way the truth and the life no man commeth unto the Father but by me Upon which place St. Chrysostome thus discourseth Quo vis ire ego sum via S. Chrysostom Quid vis scire ego sum veritas Ubi vis manere ego sum vita Whither wilt thou go I am the way What would'st thou know I am the Truth Where would'st thou remain I am the Life And again St. Bernard upon this place saith S. Bernard I am the way which leadeth to the Truth I am the Truth that