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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 14 › Objections of Papists.Section 14 › 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.
Objections of Papists.
Obiections of Papists.
I. Gen. 48.16. Let the angel that kept me bless thy children. Here (say they) it is a prayer made to angels. Ans. By the angel is meant Christ, who is called the angel of the covenant, Malac. 3.1. and the angel that guided Israel in the wilderness, 1. Cor. 10.9. compared with Exod. 23.20.
I. Gen. 48.16. Let the angel that kept me blesse thy children. Here (say they) it is a praier made to angels. Ans. By the angel is meant Christ, who is called the angel of the couenant, Malac. 3.1. and the angel that guided Israel in the wildernes, 1. Cor. 10.9. compared with Exod. 23.20.
Object. 11. Exod. 23.13. Moses prayeth that God would respect his people, for Abraham's sake, and for Isaac and Israel his servants, which were not then living. Ans. Moses prayeth God to be merciful to the people, not for the intercession of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but for his covenants sake which he had made with them, Psal. 123.10,11. Again by popish doctrine, the fathers departed knew not the estate of men upon earth, neither did they pray for them: because then they were not in heaven but in Limbo Patrum.