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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.
IV. Object. The prophets of God, when the people are threatened with the ⟨p. 949⟩plague, famine, sword, captivity, &c. exhort them to repent and to humble themselves in sackcloth and ashes: and thereby they turned away the wrath of God that was then coming forth against them. Therefore by temporal humiliation, men may escape the temporal punishments of the Lord. Answ.. Famine, sword, banishment, the plague, and other judgements sent on Gods people, were not properly punishments of sin but only the corrections of a father whereby he humbleth them that they might repent: or thus, they were punishments tending to correction, not serving for satisfaction. And the punishments of God are turned from them, not because they satisfy the justice of God in their own sufferings, but because by faith they lay hold on the satisfaction of the Messiah, & testify the same by their humiliation & repentance.
IV. Obiect. The prophets of God, when the people are threatned with the ⟨p. 949⟩plague, famine, sword, captiuitie, &c. exhort them to repent and to humble themselues in sackcloath and ashes: and thereby they turned away the wrath of God that was then comming forth against them. Therefore by temporall humiliation, men may escape the temporall punishments of the Lord. Answ.. Famine, sword, banishment, the plague, and other iudgements sent on Gods people, were not properly punishments of sinne but onely the corrections of a father whereby he humbleth them that they might repent: or thus, they were punishments tending to correction, not seruing for satisfaction. And the punishments of God are turned from them, not because they satisfie the iustice of God in their own s•fferings, but because by faith they lay hold on the satisfaction of the Messias, & testifie the same by their humiliation & repentance.