A09339:1791
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.
The fourth thing is, that an Angel ministered to Christ, being to rise again, in that he came to the grave and rolled away the stone, and sate upon it. Where observe, first how the angels of God minister unto Christ, though dead and buried; whereby they acknowledge that his power, majesty, and authority is not included within the bonds of the earth, but extends it self even to the heavens themselves and the hosts thereof, and that according to his humanity. Wicked men for their parts laboured to close him up in the earth, as the basest of all creatures: but the angels of heaven most readily accept him as their sovereign Lord and king:1 as in like manner they did in his temptation in the wilderness, and in his agony in the garden. Secondly, that the opinion of the Papists and others, which think that the body of Christ went through the grave-stone when he rose again, is without warrant. For the end, no doubt, why the angel rolled away the stone was, that Christ might come forth. And indeed it is against the order of nature that one body should pass through another, without corruption or alteration of either; considering that every body occupies a place, and two bodies at the same instant can not be in one proper place.
The fourth thing is, that an Angel ministred to Christ, beeing to rise againe, in that he came to the graue and rolled away the stone, and sate vpon it. Where obserue, first how the angels of God minister vnto Christ, though dead and buried; whereby they acknowledge that his power, maiestie, and authoritie is not included within the bonds of the earth, but extends it selfe euen to the heauens themselues and the hosts thereof, and that according to his humanitie. Wicked men for their parts laboured to close him vp in the earth, as the basest of all creatures: but the angels of heauen most readily accept him as their soueraigne Lord and king:1 as in like manner they did in his temptation in the wildernes, and in his agonie in the garden. Secondly, that the opinion of the Papists and others, which thinke that the bodie of Christ went through the graue-stone when he rose againe, is without warrant. For the end, no doubt, why the angel rolled away the stone was, that Christ might come forth. And indeed it is against the order of nature that one body should passe through another, without corruption or alteration of either; considering that euery bodie occupies a place, and two bodies at the same instant can not be in one proper place.