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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 10: Of sin, and the fall of Angels.Chapter 10: Of sinne, and the fall of Angels.
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. 10. Of sin, and the fall of Angels.
CHAP. 10. Of sinne, and the fall of Angels.
The fall, is a revolting of the reasonable creature from obedience to sin.
THe fall, is a reuolting of the reasonable creature from obedience to sinne.
Sin, is the corruption, or rather deprivation of the first integrity. More plainly, it is a falling or turning from God, binding the offender by ⟨p. 14⟩the course of Gods justice, to undergo the punishment.
Sinne, is the corruption, or rather depriuation of the first integritie. More plainely, it is a falling or turning from God, binding the offendour by ⟨p. 14⟩the course of Gods iustice, to vndergoe the punishment.
Here a doubt may be moved, whether sin be a thing existing, or not. The answer is this: Of things which are, some are positive, other primitive. Things positive, are all substances together with those their properties, effects, inclinations, and affections, which the Lord hath created and imprinted in their natures. The thing is called privative which granteth or presupposeth the absence of some such thing, as ought to be in a thing. Such a thing is sin, the which properly and of it self is not any thing created, and existing; but rather the absence of that good which ought to be in the creature.