A09353:1136
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.
As for the place in Ezek. 18.23. God will not the death of a sinner: we must hold this, that (God will) is not, as it is the overthrow and destruction of his creature: yet may he be said to will it another way: namely, as death is a punishment, and means to declare the justice of God.
As for the place in Ezek. 18.23. God will not the death of a sinner: we must holde this, that (God will) is not, as it is the ouerthrowe and destruction of his creature: yet may he be said to will it another way: namely, as death is a punishment, and meanes to declare the iustice of God.
Now in that John saith. 1. John. 2.2. That Christ is a propitiation for the sins of the whole world: his meaning is not, that all the world shall be saved, but that the elect, chosen out of all the world, shall have Christ their propitiator. For so saith Christ himself, that he asketh not for the world, but for them whom the father hath given him out of the world. Now it cannot be, that he should be a propitiation for them, for whom he doth not vouchsafe to pray.
Now in that Iohn saith. 1. Iohn. 2.2. That Christ is a propitiation for the sinnes of the whole worlde: his meaning is not, that all the world shalbe saued, but that the elect, chosen out of all the world, shal haue Christ their propitiatour. For so saith Christ himselfe, that he asketh not for the world, but for thē whom the father hath giuen him out of the world. Now it cannot be, that he should be a propitiation for them, for whom he doth not vouchsafe to pray.