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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
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.
IN the opening of this word, or title of God, two questions are to be opened.
1. Quest. Whether by thit title, Father, is signified the whole Trinity or some one person thereof. Ans. Otherwhiles this name is attributed to all the persons in Trinity, or any of them. Mal. 2. 10. Have we not all one father. &c. Luk. 3.38. Which was the son of Adam, which was the s•nne of God. And in Isaiah 36. Christ is called the Father of eternity, because all that are truly knit to him, and borne anew by him, they are eternally made the sons of God. Again, oftentimes it is given to the first person in Trinity, as in those places where one person is conferred with another. And so in this place principally for some special respects, this title agrees to the first person. For first he is the father of Christ as he is the eternal word of the father, and that by nature, because he is of the same essence with him. Secondly, he is the father to Christ in respect of his manhood, not by nature or adoption, but by personal union, because the humane nature doth subsist in the person of the word. Thirdly, he is a father to all the faithful by adoption in Christ.
1. Quest. Whether by thit title, Father, is signified the whole Trinitie or some one person thereof. Ans. Otherwhiles this name is attributed to all the persons in Trinitie, or any of them. Mal. 2. 10. Haue wee not all one father. &c. Luk. 3.38. Which was the sonne of Adam, which was the s•nne of God. And in Esai 36. Christ is called the Father of eternitie, because all that are truely knit to him, and borne anew by him, they are eternally made the sonnes of God. Againe, oftentimes it is giuen to the first person in Trinitie, as in those places where one person is conferred with another. And so in this place principally for some speciall respects, this title agrees to the first person. For first he is the father of Christ as he is the eternall word of the father, and that by nature, because he is of the same essence with him. Secondly, he is the father to Christ in respect of his manhood, not by nature or adoption, but by personall vnion, because the humane nature doth subsist in the person of the word. Thirdly, he is a father to all the faithfull by adoption in Christ.