A09353:1118
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. They teach, that the power of freewill, which man received of God, to do that which is good, is only lessened before true conversion, and not extinguished: and therefore that it is possible for man, to prepare himself for Justification. But the Scripture saith, that a natural man cannot perceive the things which are of God, much less will them. 1. Cor. 2.14. And […] the same we are taught, Eph. 2.1. that men are […] •eake, or sick, but dead in sin.
VI. They teach, that the power of freewil, which man receiued of God, to doe that which is good, is onely lessened before true conuersion, and not extinguished: and therfore that it is possible for man, to prepare himselfe for Iustification. But the Scripture saith, that a naturall man cannot perceiue the things which are of God, much lesse will them. 1. Cor. 2.14. And 〈…〉 the same we are taught, Eph. 2.1. that men are 〈…〉 •eake, or sicke, but dead in sinne.
VII. W•re as they say, that the holy Ghost doo• stir up the will, to well doing: it is apparan•e. For 1. Cor. 12.3. No man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the holy Ghost. And,