A09339:1552
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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREED. I believe in God. &c.AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREED. I beleeue in God. &c.
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.
As for the manner of the making and framing of the humane nature of Christ, it was miraculous; not by generation according to the ordinary course of nature, but by an extraordinary operation of the holy Ghost above nature: and for this cause, it is not within the compass of mans reason either to conceive or to express the manner and order of this conception. The Angel ascribes two actions to the holy Ghost in this great work; the one to come upon the virgin Mary; the other, to overshadow her: 1by the first is signified the extraordinary work of the holy Ghost in fashioning the humane nature of Christ, for so much the phrase aelsewhere importeth. The second signifieth, that the holy Ghost did as it were bcast a cloud over her, to teach us, that we should not search over much into the mystery of the Incarnation.
As for the manner of the making and framing of the humane nature of Christ, it was miraculous; not by generation according to the ordinarie course of nature, but by an extraordinary operation of the holy Ghost aboue nature: and for this cause, it is not within the compasse of mans reason either to conceiue or to expresse the manner and order of this conception. The Angel ascribes two actions to the holy Ghost in this great worke; the one to come vpon the virgin Marie; the other, to ouershadow her: 1by the first is signified the extraordinarie worke of the holy Ghost in fashioning the humane nature of Christ, for so much the phrase aelsewhere importeth. The second signifieth, that the holy Ghost did as it were bcast a cloud ouer her, to teach vs, that we should not search ouer much into the mysterie of the Incarnation.