A09339:3053

A Golden Chain

Name: A Golden Chain
Author: William Perkins

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.

William Perkins 1558–1602Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1600Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1600

[8], 184, [14], 185-524, [4], 525-570, [2], 571-684, [2], 685-711, [3], 713-771, [3], 773-830, [4], 831-906, [4], 907-1057, [1] p., [6] tables (some folded) · 648k words · STC 19646 · ESTC S114458

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HOW A MAN SHOULD APPLY ARIGHT the word of God to his own soul. › Part 6: VI.HOW A MAN SHOULD APPLIE ARIGHT the word of God to his owne soule. › Part 6: VI.

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When thou doest meditate on the promises of the Gospel, diligently consider §1these benefits, which thou enjoyest by Christ. Through Adam, thou art §2condemned to hell; by Christ thou art delivered from it. Through Adam, thou §3hast transgressed the whole law; in Christ thou hast fulfilled it. Through Adam, thou art before God a vile, and a loathsome sinner: through Christ thou §4doest appear glorious in his eyes. By Adam every little cross is the punishment of thy sin, and a token of Gods wrath: by Christ, the greatest crosses §5are easy, profitable, and tokens of Gods mercy. By Adam, thou diddest leese §6all things: in Christ all things are restored to thee again. By Adam thou art §7dead; by Christ thou art quickened, and made alive again. By Adam thou art a slave of the devil, and the child of wrath: but by Christ, thou art the child of §8God. In Adam, thou art worse then a toad, and more detestable before God: but by Christ, thou art above the Angels. For thou art joined unto him, and §9made bone of his bone, mystically. Through Adam, sin and Satan have ruled in thee, and led thee captive: by Christ, the spirit of god dwelleth in thee ⟨p. 665⟩plenteously. By Adam, came death to thee, and it is an entrance to hell: by §10

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The book

Title as printed

Author

William Perkins 1558–1602

Place

Cambridge

Printer

John LegatIohn Legat

Year

1600

Size

[8], 184, [14], 185-524, [4], 525-570, [2], 571-684, [2], 685-711, [3], 713-771, [3], 773-830, [4], 831-906, [4], 907-1057, [1] p., [6] tables (some folded)

Words

647,713

Catalogue

STC 19646 · ESTC S114458

Text

EEBO-TCP A09339

Passages

5,152

Sections

619

Title page

A Golden Chain

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VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

CONSOLATIONS FOR THE TROUBLED consciences of repentant Sinners.

CONSOLATIONS FOR THE TROVBLED consciences of repentant Sinners.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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VII.

VIII.

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CONSOLATIONS FOR THE TROUBLED consciences of repentant Sinners.

CONSOLATIONS FOR THE TROVBLED consciences of repentant Sinners.

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