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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 will of God, is that by the which he both most freely and justly with one act willeth all things. Rom. 9. 18. He hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will hardeneth. Eph. 1.5. Who hath predestinate us to be adopted through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. Jam. 4. 15. For that which you should say, if the Lord will, and we live, we will do this or that.
The will of God, is that by the which he both most freely and iustly with one act willeth all things. Rom. 9. 18. He hath mercie on whom he will, and whom he will hardeneth. Eph. 1.5. Who hath predestinate vs to be adopted through Iesus Christ vnto himselfe, according to the good pleasure of his will. Iam. 4. 15. For that which you should say, if the Lord will, and we liue, we will doe this or that.
God willeth that which is good, by approving it; that which is evil, in as much as it is evil, by disallowing and forsaking it. And yet he voluntarily doth permit evil: because it is good that there should be evil. Act. 14.16. Who in time past suffered all the Gentiles to walk in their own ways. Psal. 81.12. So I gave them up to the hardness of their heart, and they have walked in their own counsels.
God willeth that which is good, by approouing it; that which is euill, in as much as it is euill, by disallowing and forsaking it. And yet he voluntarily doth permit euill: because it is good that there should be euill.