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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
Section 6 › Objections of Papists.Section 6 › Obiections of Papists.
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. Object. Levit. 4. Moses according to Gods commandment prescribed several sacrifices for several persons; and they were means of satisfaction for the temporal punishments of their daily sins. Ans. Those sacrifices were only signs and types of Christs satisfaction to be offered to his father in his alone sacrifice upon the cross: and whosoever offered any sacrifice in the old testament, did thus and no otherwise esteem of it, but as a type and figure of better things. Secondly, the said sacrifices were satisfactions to the Church, whereby men did testify their repentance for their offences, and likewise their desire to be reconciled to God and men. And such kind of satisfactions, we acknowledge.
I. Obiect. Leuit. 4. Moses according to Gods commandement prescribed seuerall sacrifices for seuerall persons; and they were meanes of satisfaction for the temporall punishments of their daily sinnes. Ans. Those sacrifices were onely signes and types of Christs satisfaction to be offered to his father in his alone sacrifice vpon the crosse: and whosoeuer offered any sacrifice in the old testament, did thus and no otherwise esteeme of it, but as a type and figure of better things. Secondly, the saide sacrifices were satisfactions to the Church, whereby men did testifie their repentance for their offences, and likewise their desire to be reconciled to God and men. And such kinde of satisfactions, we acknowledge.
II. Object. Men, whose sins are all pardoned, have afterward sundry crosses and afflictions laid upon them, unto the end of their days: therefore in all likelihood they make satisfaction to God for temporal punishments. As for example, the Israelites for murmuring against the Lord in the wilderness were barred all from the land of promise: and the like befell Moses and Aaron for not glorifying God as they should have done at the waters of strife. Ans. Man must be considered in a two-fold estate, as he is under the law, and as he is under grace. In the first estate, all afflictions are curses or legal punishments, be they little or great: but to them that are in the second estate and believe in Christ, though the same afflictions remain, yet do they change their habit or condition, and are the actions of a Father serving to be trials, corrections, preventings, admonitions,