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A Golden Chain
A golden chain: or The description of theology containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seen in the table annexed. Hereunto is adjoined the order which M. Theodore Beza used in comforting afflicted consciences.A golden chaine: or The description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seene in the table annexed. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting afflicted consciences.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1600Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1600
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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.
The XVI. error.
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Works done in grace doe (ex condigno) condignely merit eternal life.
Workes done in grace doe (ex condigno) condignely merit eternall life.
The Confutation.
I. Eternal life is the free gift of God. Rom. 6.23. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus. Therefore it is not obtained by the merit of works. II. The merit of condignitie, is an action belonging to such an nature as is both God and man, not to a bare creature. For the Angels themselves cannot merit any thing at Gods hands: yea and Adam also, if he had stood in his first innocency, could have deserved nothing of god, because it is the bounden duty of the creature to perform obedience unto his Creator. The merit therefore of condignitie, doth only agree unto Christ God and man, in whom each nature doth, to the effecting of this merit, perform that which belongeth to it. For the humanity it doth minister matter unto the meritorious work, by suffering and performing obedience: but the Deity of Christ, whereunto the humanity is hypostatically united doth confer full and sufficient worthiness unto the work. Hence is it that the Father doth speak thus of his son,