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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 procurer of death is man not God; in that man by his sin and disobedience did pull upon himself this punishment. Therefore the Lord in Oseah,1 O Israel, one hath destroyed thee, but in me is thine help. Against this it may be objected, that man was mortal in the estate of innocency before the fall. Answer. The frame and composition of mans body considered in it self was mortal, because it was made of water and earth and other elements which are of themselves alterable and changeable: yet if we respect that grace and blessing which God did vouchsafe mans body in his creation, it was unchangeable and immortal, and so by the same blessing should ⟨p. 775⟩have continued, if man had not fallen: and man by his fall depriving himself of this gift and blessing, became every way mortal.
The procurer of death is man not God; in that man by his sinne and disobedience did pull vpon himselfe this punishment. Therefore the Lord in Oseah,1 O Israel, one hath destroyed thee, but in me is thine helpe. Against this it may bee obiected, that man was mortall in the estate of innocency before the fall. Answere. The frame and composition of mans bodie considered in it selfe was mortall, because it was made of water and earth and other elements which are of themselues alterable and changeable: yet if wee respect that grace and blessing which God did vouchsafe mans bodie in his creation, it was vnchangeable and immortall, and so by the same blessing should ⟨p. 775⟩haue continued, if man had not fallen: and man by his fall depriuing himselfe of this gift and blessing, became euery way mortall.