A09339:1892
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.
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,4 Of the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. For you your selves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall come, even as a thief in the night. Now we know that a man that keepeth his house, can not conjecture or imagine when a thief will come: and therefore no man can set down the particular time or age, when Christ shall come to judgement. ⟨p. 422⟩This must we hold steadfastly, and if we read the contrary in the writings of men, we are not to believe their sayings, but account of them as the devices of men, which have no ground in Gods word.
Nowe the trueth which may be auouched against all, is this, that no man can know or set down or coniecture the day, the weeke, the moneth, the yere, or athe age, wherin the second comming of Christ and the last day of iudgement shall be. For Christ himselfe saith,2 of that daie and houre knoweth no man, no not the angels in heauen, but God onely may Christ himselfe as he is man knew it not. And when the disciples asked Christ at his ascension, whether he would restore the kingdome vnto Israel, he answered,