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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
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CHAP. 50. Concerning the order of the causes of salvation according to the doctrine of the Church of Rome.
CHAP. 50. Concerning the order of the causes of saluation according to the doctrine of the Church of Rome.
There are two things requisite to obtained salvation: Predestination, and the Execution thereof.
THere are two things requisite to obtained saluation: Predestination, and the Execution thereof.
Predestination, is a foreordaining of the reasonable creature to grace in this life, & glory in the life to come. Sebast. Cattaneus. Enchirid. tract. 1. chap. last.
This in regard of the first effects thereof, which are vocation, election, and ordination to eternal life, hath the cause of it in God, namely his will: but in regard of the last effect, which is, the execution of such an ordinance, and the obtaining of eternal life, it hath the cause of it from man, because according to the common opinion, Gods predestination is by reason of works foreseen in men, that is, God doth therefore predestinate or reject some man, because he foreseeth that he will well or badly use his grace. But for the more evident declaration of this, these seven conclusions must be set down.