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A golden chain, or the description of theologyA golden chaine, or the description of theologie
A golden chain, or the description of theology containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view of the order whereof, is to be seen in the table annexed. Written in Latin by William Perkins, and translated by an other. Hereunto is adjoined the order which M. Theodore Beza used in comforting troubled consciences.A golden chaine, or the description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods woord. A view of the order wherof, is to be seene in the table annexed. Written in Latine by William Perkins, and translated by an other. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting troubled consciences.
London: printed by Edward Alde, 1591
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.
Chap. 17. Of the distinction of both natures.
The distinction of both natures, is that, whereby they, with their properties & effects, remain, without composition, mingling or conversion, distinct. Joh. 10.17, 18. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that J might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but J lay it down of my self: I have power to lay it down, and have power to take it again. Joh. 13.31, 32. Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself. Here we may observe, that there is one will in Christ, as God: another, as man. Matth. 26.39. Not as I will, but as thou wilt. This also approveth that sentence of the Calcedon Creed. We confess, that one & the same Christ Jesus, both Son, Lord, and only begotten, is known, and preached to be in two natures without confusion, mutation, distinction, or separation.
THe distinction of both natures, is that, wherby they, with their properties & effectes, remaine, without composition, mingling or conuersion, distinct. Ioh. 10.17, 18. Therefore doth my Father loue me, because I lay downe my life, that J might take it againe. No man taketh it from me, but J lay it downe of my selfe: I haue power to lay it downe, and haue power to take it againe. Ioh. 13.31, 32. Now is the Sonne of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shal also glorifie him in himselfe. Here we may obserue, that there is one will in Christ, as God: another, as man. Matth. 26.39. Not as I will, but as thou wilt. This also approoueth that sentence of the Calcedon Creede. We confesse, that one & the same Christ Iesus, both Sonne, Lord, and onely begotten, is knowen, and preached to be in two natures without confusion, mutation, distinction, or separation.