A09353:104
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.
Gods decree, in as much as it concerneth man, is called predestination: which is the decree of God, by the which he hath ordained all men, to a certain and everlasting estate; that is, either to salvation or condemnation, for his own glory. 1. Thes. 5.9. For God hath not appointed us unto wrath, but to obtain salvation by the means of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⟨image 12⟩Rom. 9.13. As it is written, I have loved Jacob & hated Esais. and ver. 12. What and if God would to show his wrath and make his power known, suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath prepared to destruction, and that he might declare the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory.
GOds decree, in as much as it concerneth man, is called predestination: which is the decree of God, by the which he hath ordeined all men, to a certain and euerlasting estate; that is, either to saluation or condemnation, for his own glory. 1. Thes. 5.9. For God hath not appointed vs vnto wrath, but to obtaine saluation by the meanes of our Lord Iesus Christ. ⟨image 12⟩Rom. 9.13. As it is written, I haue loued Jacob & hated Esais. and ver. 12. What and if God would to shewe his wrath and make his power knowne, suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath prepared to destruction, and that he might declare the riches of his glorye vpon the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared vnto glory.
The means of accomplishing Gods predestination are two fold.
The meanes of accomplishing Gods predestination are two folde.