A09353:1044
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. 48. Of the 4. degree, of the declaration of Gods love: and of the estate of the elect, after this life.
Chap. 48. Of the 4. degree, of the declaration of Gods loue: and of the estate of the elect, after this life.
Glorification, is the perfect transforming of the Saints into the image of the Son of God. Phil. 3.21. Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working, whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. 1. Cor. 15.44. It is sown a natural body, and is raised a spiritual body: there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45. As it is also written, The first man Adam was made a living soul: the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Verse. 49. And as we have borne