A09353:1119
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.
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, Phil. 2.13. It is God which worketh in you, to do, and to will. And no man can come to the Son, except the Father draw him. To conclude, how can there be any spark of goodness in him, who is anew to be fashioned after God, in righteousness & true holiness. Eph. 4.24.
VII. W•re as they say, that the holy Ghost doo• stirre vp the will, to well dooing: it is apparan•e. For 1. Cor. 12.3. No man can say that Iesus is Lord, but by the holy Ghost. And, Phil. 2.13. It is God which worketh in you, to doe, and to will. And no man can come to the Sonne, except the Father draw him. To conclude, how cā there be any spark of goodnes in him, who is anew to be fashioned after God, in righteousnes & true holines. Eph. 4.24.
VIII. They teach, that in man there is a natural preparation to Grace: and that it doth by a merit, which is of sufficient worthiness, deserve justification. This position savoureth of more then Satanical pride. For can any man think, (unless he be besides himself) that he, who deserveth infinite thousand damnations, can deserve the least drop of grace?