A09339:1770
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.
To conclude the doctrine of Christs burial. Here it may be demanded, how he was always after his incarnation both God and man, considering he was dead and buried, and therefore body and soul were sundered, and a dead man seems to be no man. Ans. A dead man in his kind is as true a man as a living man: for though body and soul be not united by the bond of life, yet are they united by a relation which the one hath to the other in the counsel & good pleasure of god; and that as truly as man and woman r•maine coupled into one flesh by a covenant of marriage, though afterward they be distant a thousand miles asunder. And by virtue of this relation every soul in the day of judgement shall be reunited to his own body, and every body to his own soul. But there is yet a more straighter bond between the body and soul of Christ in his death and burial.1 For as when he was living his soul was a mean or bond to unite his godhead and his body together: so when he was dead his very Godhead was a mean or middle bond to unite the body and soul: and to say otherwise is to dissolve the hypostatical union, by virtue whereof Christs body and soul though severed each from other, yet both were still joined to the godhead of the son.
To conclude the doctrine of Christs buriall. Here it may bee demanded, howe he was alwaies after his incarnation both God and man, considering he was dead and buried, and therfore bodie and soule were sundered, and a dead man seemes to be no man. Ans. A dead man in his kind is as true a man as a liuing man: for though bodie and soule be not vnited by the bond of life, yet are they vnited by a relation which the one hath to the other in the counsell & good pleasure of god; and that as truely as man and woman r•maine coupled into one flesh by a couenant of marriage, though afterward they be distant a thousand miles asunder. And by vertue of this relation euery soule in the day of iudgement shall be reunited to his own bodie, and euerie bodie to his own soule. But there is yet a more straighter bond betweene the bodie and soule of Christ in his death and buriall.1 For as when he was liuing his soule was a meane or bond to vnite his godhead and his bodie togither: so when hee was dead his verie Godhead was a meane or middle bonde to vnite the bodie and soule: and to say otherwise is to dissolue the hypostaticall vnion, by vertue whereof Christs bodie and soule though seuered each from other, yet both were still ioyned to the godhead of the sonne.