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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.
Some, fearing least they should make God an unjust and cruel God, refer this word Predestination only to the elect: as for the reprobate, they hold that God doth not predestinate them, but only foreknow that they should be condemned. Of this mind is Hemming. Syntag. chap. of Predestination: and Jacobus Andreas. These men turn the causes of salvation and damnation upside down: following this order.
Some, fearing least they should make God an vniust and cruell God, refer this worde Predestination onelye to the elect: as for the reprobate, they hold that God doth not predestinate them, but only foreknow that they should be condemned. Of this minde is Heming. Syntag. chap. of Predestination: and Iacobus Andreas. These men turne the causes of saluation and damnation vpside down: following this order.
Gods decree, whereby he would that all men should be saved in Christ. The fall of Adam, not preordained of God, but only foreknown Predestination, whereby God purposed with himself to justify, and pertually to glorify certain of Adams posterity, freely of his own mercy, not by their faith or works, which he fore saw. Gods foreknowledge of mans incredulity, and contumacy, whereby the rest of Adams posterity refuse that grace which is offered in the Gospel. The decree of reprobation, whereby God foreknowing their contumacy, adjudgeth them to eternal damnation.
Gods decree, wherby he would that all men should be saued in Christ. The fall of Adam, not preordeined of God, but only foreknowen Predestination, wherby God purposed with himselfe to iustifie, and pertually to glorify certain of Adams posteritye, freelye of his owne mercye, not by their faith or workes, which he fore saw. Gods foreknowledg of mans incredulitie, and cōtumacie, wherby the rest of Adams posteritie refuse that grace which is offered in the Gospell. The decree of reprobation, whereby God foreknowing their cō tumacye, adiudgeth them to eternall damnation.