A09353:1083
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.
VI. God alone doeth know the certain and set number of them which are predestinate.
VI. God alone doeth know the certaine and set number of them which are predestinate.
VII. There is one set number of them which are predestinate, or reproved, and that can neither be increased nor diminished.
VII. There is one set number of them which are predestinate, or reprooued, and that can neither be encreased nor diminished.
The execution of Predestination, is either in infants, or those of years of discretion.
The execution of Predestination, is either in infants, or those of yeeres of discretion.
Concerning infants, the merit of Christ is applied unto them, by baptism rightly administered: so that whatsoever, in original corruption, may truly and properly be accounted for sin, it is not only, as I may say, not pared away, or not imputed, but utterly taken away. For there is nothing that God can hate in such as are renewed. Concil. Trid. 5. sect. 5. can.