A09339:113
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
Chapter 6: Of Gods works, and his decree.Chapter 6: Of Gods workes, and his decree.
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 decree of God, is that by which God in himself, hath necessarily, and yet freely, from all eternity determined all things. Eph. 1. 11. In whom also we are chosen when we were predestinate, according to the purpose of him, which wor•eth all things after the counsel of his own will. and vers. 4. As he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world. Matth. 10.29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, and not one of them falleth on the ground without your Father? Rom 9. 21. Hath not the potter power on the clay, to make of the same lump one vessel •• dishonour, and another to honour.
The decree of God, is that by which God in himselfe, hath necessarily, and yet freely, from all eternitie determined all things. Eph. 1. 11. In whome also we are chosen when we were predestinate, according to the purpose of him, which wor•eth all things after the counsell of his owne will. and vers. 4. As he hath chosen vs in him before the foundation of the world. Matth. 10.29. Are not two sparrowes sold for a farthing, and not one of them falleth on the ground without your Father? Rom 9. 21. Hath not the potter power on the clay, to make of the same lumpe one vessell •• dishonour, and another to honour.
Therefore the Lord, according to his good pleasure, hath most certainly decreed e•ery both thing and action, whether past, present, or to come, together with their circumstances of place, time, means, and end.
Ther•fore the Lord, according to his good pleasure, hath most certainely decreed eery both thing and action, whether past, present, or to come, together with their circumstances of place, time, meanes, and ende.