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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
Chapter 20 › The negative part.Chapter 20 › The negatiue part.
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The negative part.
The negatiue part.
Account not that as God, which is by nature no God.
In this place are these sins forbidden: I. Ignorance of the true God and his will, which is not only not to know, but also to doubt of such things, as God hath revealed in his word, Jerem. 4. 22. My people is foolish, they have not known me: they are foolish children, and have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do well, they have no knowledge. Jerem. 9.3. They proceed from evil to worse, and have not known me, saith the Lord. II. Atheism, when the heart denieth either God, or his attributes: as, his Justice, Wisdom, Providence, Presence. Psal. 14. 1. The fool hath said in his heart there is no God. Eph. 2. 12. Ye had no hope, and were without God in the world. Malach. 1.2. I love you, saith the Lord, yet ye say, wherein have we spoken against thee? v. 14. Ye have said, it is in vain to serve God: & what profit is it, that we have kept his commandments, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hosts? III. Errors concerning God, the persons of the Deity, or the attributes. Here is it to be reproved Hellenism, which is the acknowledging & adoring ⟨p. 41⟩of a multiplicity of Gods. August in his 6. book of the City of God. chap. 7. Again, Judaism is here condemned, which worshippeth one God without Christ. The like may be said of the heresies of the Manichees, and Marcian, who deny God the Father: of Sabellius, denying the distinction of three persons: and Arrius, who saith, that Christ the Son of God, is not very God. IV. To withdraw, and remove the affections of the heart, from the lord, and set them upon other things. Isaiah 29.13. The Lord said, this people draweth near me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.