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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.
II. They teach, that Gods predestination is mutable: and so as that he, whom God hath predestinate to life, may for all that be condemned: and he, who in Gods foreknowledge is a reprobate, may afterward obtain eternal life. All this is flat contrary: for God hath undoubtedly & unchangeably decreed, what shall become of every man, who shall be saved, and who shall be condemned. Rom. 11.29. The gifts and calling of God, are without repentance. Math. 24.24. There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, so that (if it were possible) they should deceive the very Elect. Rom. 8.33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen? it is God that justifieth, verse. 34. Who shall condemn? It is Christ which is dead, &c. vers. 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 2. Tim. ⟨image 150⟩2.19. This foundation standeth sure, The Lord knoweth who are his. Again, if we grant this, it must needs follow that the foreknowledge of God may be deceived, his will altered, & his power weakened. The which is most blasphemous to think, or say. Finally, by this means, every man should be uncertain of his predestination to life: and so that excellent and only sure groundwork of full assurance o salvation, is not only sore shaken, but quite and clean overturned.
II. They teach, that Gods predestination is mutable: and so as that hee, whome God hath predestinate to life, may for all that be condemned: and he, who in Gods foreknowledge is a reprobate, may afterward obtaine eternall life. All this is flat contrary: for God hath vndoubtedly & vnchangeably decreed, what shal become of euery man, who shalbe saued, and who shalbe condemned. Rom. 11.29. The gifts and calling of God, are without repentance. Math. 24.24