A09353:1097
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.
IIII. At the length, faith returneth to the contemplation of Gods mercies, and believeth that God is ready to forgive sins by the infusion of charity into those, which are before sufficiently prepared and disposed.
IIII. At the length, faith returneth to the contemplation of Gods mercies, and beleeueth that God is readie to forgiue sinnes by the infusion of charitie into those, which are before sufficiently prepared and disposed.
V. Out of this contemplation proceedeth the act of hope, whereby faith beginneth to desire and ⟨image 148⟩to wait on God, as the chiefest good.
V. Out of this contemplation proceedeth the act of hope, whereby faith beginneth to desire and ⟨image 148⟩to waite on God, as the cheefest good.
VI. Out of this act of hope ariseth love, whereby God is loved above all things in the world.
VI. Out of this act of hope ariseth loue, whereby God is loued aboue all things in the world.