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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.
III. Man is neither by necessity nor chance saved or condemned, but voluntarily.
III. Man is neither by necessitie nor chance saued or condemned, but voluntarily.
IIII. God hath Predestinated some, other hath he rejected.
IIII. God hath Predestinated some, other hath he reiected.
V. Those whom God hath predestinated by his absolute predestination, which cannot be lost, they shall infallibly die in grace: But they which are predestinate by that predestination which being according to present justice, may be lost by some mortal sin which followeth, are not infallibly saved, but oftentimes such are condemned, & loose their crown & glory. Hence ariseth that position of theirs, that he which is justified may be a reprobate, and ⟨image 147⟩perish eternally. Torrensis Aug. Confess. 2. book. 4. chap. 20. sect. Therefore predestination is not certain, seeing it may be lost.
V. Those whom God hath predestinated by his absolute predestination, which cannot be lost, they shall infallibly die in grace: But they which are predestinate by that predestination which being according to presēt iustice, may be lost by some mortall sinne which followeth, are not infallibly saued, but oftentimes such are condemned, & loose their crown & glory. Hence ariseth that positiō of theirs, that hee which is iustified may be a reprobate, and ⟨image 147⟩