A09353:1105
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.
It is possible for such as are renewed, to keep the commandments: And therefore it is false that is just […] committeth so much as a venial s•ne, ⟨image 148⟩in his best actions, much less, that he deserveth eternal death for the same.
It is possible for such as are renewed, to keepe the commandements: And therefore it is false that is iust 〈…〉 committeth so much as a veniall s•ne, ⟨image 148⟩in his best actions, much lesse, that he deserueth eternall death for the same.
The fifth degree is the reparation of a sinner by the sacrament of Penance. The which is as it were, the second board after a shipwreck. The cause why this reparation is necessary, is, because men loose the grace of justification by every mortal sin.
The fift degree is the reparation of a sinner by the sacrament of Penance. The which is as it were, the second boord after a shipwracke. The cause why this reparation is necessarie, is, because men loose the grace of iustification by euery mortall sinne.
The last degree is the fruit of Justification: which is nothing else, but the meritorious reward of good works, namely eternal life, which the good works of such as are in the estate of grace do ex condigno, that is, of sufficient worthiness deserve.