A09339:1891
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 second opinion is, that the end of the world shall be three years and an half after the revealing of Antichrist. And it is gathered out of places in Daniel and the Revelation, abused. Where a time and half a time signify not three years and a half, but a short time. And therefore to take the words properly, is far from the meaning of the holy Ghost. For mark, if the end shall be three years and a half after the revealing of Antichrist, then may any man know before hand the particular month wherein the end of the world should be, which is not possible.
The second opinion is, that the ende of the world shall be three yeares and an halfe after the reuealing of Antichrist. And it is gathered out of places in Daniel and the Reuelation, abused. Where a time and halfe a time signifie not three yeares and a halfe, but a short time. And therefore to take the wordes properly, is farre from the meaning of the holy Ghost. For marke, if the ende shall be three yeares and a halfe after the reuealing of Antichrist, then may any man knowe before hand the particular moneth wherein the ende of the world should be, which is not possible.
Now the trueth which may be avouched against all, is this, that no man can know or set down or conjecture the day, the week, the month, the year, or athe age, wherein the second coming of Christ and the last day of judgement shall be. For Christ himself saith,2 of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels in heaven, but God only may Christ himself as he is man knew it not. And when the disciples asked Christ at his ascension, whether he would restore the kingdom unto Israel, he answered,3 It is not for you to know the times and seasons, which the father hath put in his own power. And Paul saith,