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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
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.
Object. I. Matth. 12.40. The son of man shall be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, that is, in hell. Ans. I. This exposition is directly against the scope of the place: for the Pharisees desired to see a sign, that is, some sensible and manifest miracle: and hereunto Christ answers that he will give them the sign of Jonah, which cannot be the descent of his soul into the place of the damned, because it was insensible; but rather his burial, and after it his manifest and glorious resurrection. II. The heart of the earth may as well signify the grave as the centre of the earth. For thus Tyre bordering upon the sea, is said to be in the heart of the sea.1 III. This exposition takes it for granted that hell is seated in the middest of the earth: whereas the scriptures reveal unto us no more but this, that hell is in the lower parts: but where these lower parts should be, no man is able to define.
Obiect. I. Matth. 12.40. The sonne of man shall be three daies and three nights in the heart of the earth, that is, in hell. Ans. I. This exposition is directly against the scope of the place: for the Pharises desired to see a signe, that is, some sensible and manifest miracle: and hereunto Christ answers that he will giue them the signe of Ionas, which cannot be the descent of his soule into the place of the dāned, because it was insensible; but rather his buriall, and after it his manifest and glorious resurrection. II. The heart of the earth may as well signifie the graue as the center of the earth. For thus Tyrus bordering vpon the sea, is said to be in the heart of the sea.1 III. This exposition takes it for graunted that hell is seated in the middest of the earth: whereas the scriptures reueale vnto vs no more but this, that hell is in the lower parts: but where these lower parts should be, no man is able to define.
- 1Ezech. 27.4. In cord marium.