A09353:1073
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. 51. Concerning the order of the causes of salvation according to the doctrine of the Church of Rome.
Chap. 51. Concerning the order of the causes of saluation according to the doctrine of the Church of Rome.
There are two things requisite to obtain salvation: Predestination, & the Execution thereof.
THere are two things requisite to obtaine saluation: Predestination, & the Execution thereof.
Predestination is a fore-ordaining of the reasonable creature to grace in this life, and glory in the life to come. Sebast. Catta. Enchirid. tract. 1. cap. ult.
Predestination is a fore-ordaining of the reasonable creature to grace in this life, and glorie in the life to come. Sebast. Catta. Enchirid. tract. 1. cap. vlt.
This in regard of the first effects thereof, which are vocation, election, and ordination to eternal life, hath the cause of it in God, namely his will: but in regard of the last effect, which is, the execution of such an ordinance, and the obtaining of eternal life, it hath the cause of it from man. But for the more evident declaration of this, these seven conclusions must be set down.