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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.
I answer that the wisdom of the flesh is enmity to Gods wisdom, Rom. 8.7. and a•l men by nature are nothing but flesh: for naturally they are the children of wrath. Secondly, the worshipping of god in images, is a great matter in the Church of Rome: but this manner of worshipping is nothing but a work of the flesh, which thus I prove: bIdolatry is natural, and a work of the flesh; but to worship God in images, is idolatry. The children of Israel when they erected the golden calves they did commit idolatry, and yet they did not worship the calf it self, b•• God in the calf. For when the calf was made, they cproclaimed an holy day, not to the calf, but to the Lord. And Baal, that detestable idol, was nothing but the image of God, as appeareth in Hosea the prophet. At that day, saith the lord,3 thou shalt calm no more Baal.
I answer that the wisdome of the flesh is enmitie to Gods wisdome, Rom. 8.7. and a•l men by nature are nothing but flesh: for naturally they are the children of wrath. Secondly, the worshipping of god in images, is a great matter in the Church of Rome: but this manner of worshipping is nothing but a worke of the flesh, which thus I prooue: bIdolatrie is naturall, and a worke of the flesh; but to worship God in images, is idolatrie. The children of Israel when they erected the golden calfe• they did commit idolatrie, and yet they did not worship the calfe it selfe, b•• God in the calfe. For when the calfe was made, they cproclaimed an holy day, not to the calfe, but to the Lord. And Baal, that detestable idol, was nothing but the image of God, as appeareth in Hosea the prophet. At that day, saith the lord,