A09353:1092
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.
This is the foundation of justification, and prepareth the heart: because it stirreth up free will that it may affect the hart with those motions by which it is prepared to justification.
This is the foundaion of iustification, and prepareth the heart: because it stirreth vp free wil that it may affect the hart with those motions by which it is prepared to iustification.
I. The first act of faith is to apprehend the ugliness of sin, and the wages thereof.
I. The first act of faith is to apprehend the vglines of sinne, and the wages thereof.
II. After this followeth a fear of Gods anger, and of hell fire.
II. After this followeth a feare of Gods anger, and of hell fire.