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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.
II. Then the heavens, being all set on fire, shall with a noise, like to that of Chariot wheels, suddenly pass away, and the elements, with the earth, and all therein, shall be consumed with fire. 2. Pet. 3.12. Looking for, and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens being set on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with heat. Ver. 13. But we look for new heavens, and a new earth, according to his promise, wherein dwelleth all righteousness.
II. Then the heauens, being all set on fire, shall with a noise, like to that of Chariot wheeles, suddenly passe away, and the elements, with the earth, and all therin, shalbe consumed with fire. 2. Pet. 3.12. Looking for, and hasting vnto the comming of the day of God, by which the heauens being set on fire shalbe dissolued, and the elements shall melt with heate. Ver. 13. But we looke for new heauens, and a newe earth, according to his promise, wherin dwelleth all righteousnes.
At the same time, when as all these things ⟨image 143⟩shall come to pass, a the sound of the last trumpet shall be heard, sounded by the Archangel. b And Christ shall come suddenly in the clouds, with power, and glory, and a great train of Angels. a Matt. 24.31. And he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet. 1. Thess. 4.16. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, even with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. b Matth. 24.30.