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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 book of Judges it is said, that the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord,1 and served Baalim. Now these Baalims, what are they? Surely Idols resembling the true God: as the Prophet Hosea declareth.2 And at that day saith the Lord, thou shalt call me Ishai, & shalt call me no more Baali. Here it appeareth that the Israelites meaning was not to worship a false god, but the true God in Baalim. And Aaron when he made the golden calf proclaimed that the next day should be holy day,3 not of any false god, but of the Lord that brought them out of Egypt. The prophet Isaiah after that he had set forth Gods majesty very worthily,4 he comes in with this conclusion: To whom then will ye liken God? or what similitude will ye set up of him? which declareth that the Jews after the manner of the Gentiles ran a whoring after Idols, that is, Images not only of false gods, but also of the true God. I conclude therefore as I began, that the Church of Rome, by maintaining images, hath repealed this commandment.
In the booke of Iudges it is said, that the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord,1 and serued Baalim. Now these Baalims, what are they? Surely Idols resembling the true God: as the Prophet Hosea declareth.2 And at that day saith the Lord, thou shalt call me Ishai, & shalt call me no more Baali. Here it appeareth that the Israelites meaning was not to worship a false god, but the true God in Baalim. And Aaron when he made the golden calfe proclaimed that the next day should be holy daie,3 not of any false god, but of the Lord that brought them out of Egypt. The prophet Esay after that hee had set forth Gods maiestie very worthily,4