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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.
The Resolution.
I am] If any man rather judge, that these words are a preface to all the commandments, then a part of the first, I hinder him not: nevertheless, it is like, that they are a persuasion to the keeping of the first commandment: & that they are set before it, to make way unto it: as being more hard to be received, then the rest. And this may appear, in that the three commandments next following have their several reasons.
I am] If any man rather iudge, that these words are a preface to al the commandements, then a part of the first, I hinder him not: neuerthelesse, it is like, that they are a perswasion to the keeping of the first commandement: & that they are set before it, to make way vnto it: as being more hard to be receiued, then the rest. And this may appeare, in that the three commandements next following haue their seuerall reasons.
Jehovah] This word signifieth three things: I. Him who of himself, and in himself, was from all eternity. Revel. 1.8. Who is, who was, and who is to come. II. Him which giveth being to all things, when they were not, partly by creating, partly by preserving them. III. Him which mightily causeth that those things which he hath promised, should both be made, and continued. Exod. 6.1.