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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
Chapter 7: Of man, and the estate of innocency.Chapter 7: Of man, and the estate of innocencie.
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.
CHAP. 7. Of man, and the estate of innocency.
CHAP. 7. Of man, and the estate of innocencie.
Man, after he was created of God, was established in an excellent estate of innocency. In this estate seven things are chiefly to be regarded.
MAn, after he was created of God, was established in an excellent estate of innocencie. In this estate seuen things are chiefly to be regarded.
I. The place. The garden of Eden, that most pleasant garden. Gen. 2. 15. Then the Lord took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden. II. The integrity of mans nature. Which was Eph• 4.24. Created in righteousness and true holiness. This integrity hath two parts. The first is wisdom, which is true and perfect knowledge of God, and of his will, in as much as it is to be performed of man, yea, and of the counsel of God in all his creatures. Coloss. 3. 10. And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him. Gen. chap. 2.19. When the Lord God had formed on the earth every beast of the field, and every foul of the heaven, he brought them unto the man, to see how he would call them: for howsoever the man called the living creature, so was the name thereof. The second is Justice, which is a conformity of the will, affections, and powers of the body to the will of God. III. Mans dignity, consisting of four parts. First, his communion with God, by which as God rejoiced in his own image, so likewise man was incensed to love God: this is apparent by Gods familiar conference with Adam,