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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.
Blessedness hath two parts: Eternal life, and perfect glory.
Blessednesse hath two partes: Eternall life, and perfect glorie.
Eternal life, is that fellowship with God, awhereby God himself, is, through the Lamb Christ, life unto the Elect. For in the kingdom of heaven, the elect shall not need meat, drink, sleep, air, heat, cold, physic, apparel, or the light of the Sun and Moon: b but in place of all these, shall they have in them Gods Spirit, by which immediately they shall be quickened for ever. a John. 14.23. If any man love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and dwell with him. 1. John. 4.15. Whosoever confesseth that Jesus Christ is the Soon of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Revel. 21.3. And I heard a voice, saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them: and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be their God with them. vers. 23. And that City hath no need of Sun or Moon to shine in it: for the glory of God did light it, & the lamb is the light of it Revel. 22.2. In the midst of the street of it, and of either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and gave fruit every month: & the leaves of the tree served to heal the nations with. vers. 5. And there shall be no night there, and they need no candle or light of the sun: for the Lord giveth them light, and they shall reign for evermore. b1. Corinth. 15.45. Rom. 8.11. If the spirit of him, that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal ⟨image 145⟩