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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
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The fifth reason. Eternal life is a thing desired of all men: yet none shall be made partakers of it, but the true christian, and the glorious estate of this life would move any man to be a christian. First of all, they which have eternal life are freed from all pains, sicknesses, infirmities, hunger, thirst, cold, weariness; from all sin, as anger, forgetfulness, ignorance; from hell, death, damnation, Satan, and from every thing that causeth misery: according to that of Saint John: And uGod will wipe away all tears from their eyes: and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, neither crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the first things are passed. Secondly, the faithful shall be in the presence of Gods majesty in heaven there to behold his face, that is, his glory, as our Saviour Christ saith, Father, xI will that they which thou hast given me, be with me even where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me. And David saith, In ythy presence is fullness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Thirdly, theyz shall have such an excellent communion with God, that he shall be unto them all in all. For in the end of the world, when the whole number of the elect is accomplished, Christ shall present them to his father, and as he is Mediator he shall cease to be a King, a Priest, a Prophet: for though the efficacy of his offices be everlasting: yet the execution of them shall cease, as Paul saith, aThen shall be the end, when he ⟨p. 616⟩hath delivered up the kingdom to God even the father, when he hath put down all rule, all authority and power. Again, among the elect there shall not be king & subject, father, mother, child, master, servant, noble, ignoble, rich, poor, living, dead. Some will say, what then shall be? I answer, one glorious and everlasting God, the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost shall be in all the elect, all that heart can wish and desire. Men shall not be in darkness, neither shall they need the light of the Sun, Moon, or Stars, God himself immediately shall be their light,