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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.
Neither must any think that hereby God hateth his creature: for he decreed to destroy his workmanship, not because he hated it, but upon just causes known to him, he ordained it to be subject to his hatred. And God doth not actually hate any thing for ought but sin. That saying of Aug. to Simpl. is a true saying. When God maketh the wicked, whom he doth not justify, vessels of wrath, he doth it not to hate that which he made: for in that he made them vessels, they have their use, namely, that by their pains to which they were ordained, the vessels of honour might reap profit. God therefore doth not hate them, in that they are men, or vessels, neither any thing that he made in them by creation, or ordination. For God hateth nothing which he hath made. But in as much as he made them vessels of destruction, he did it to instruct others. As for their impiety which he never made, that he hateth utterly. As therefore a judge hateth theft in a man, but he doth not ⟨image 156⟩hate his punishment that he is sent to work in the mines. For the thief doth the first, the Judge the latter: so God, whereas of the company of them which perish, he maketh vessels of perdition, he doth not therefore hate that which he doth, that is, the condemnation of those which perish in their due punishment for sin.
Neither must any thinke that hereby God hateth his creature: for he decreede to destroye his workemanship, not because he hated it, but vpon iust causes known to him, he ordeined it to be subiect to his hatred. And God doth not actually hate any thing for ought but sinne. That saying of Aug. to Simpl. is a true saying. When God maketh the wicked, whom he doth not iustifie, vessels of wrath, he dooth it not to hate that which he made: for in that he made them vessels, they haue their vse, namely, that by their paines to which they were ordeined, the vessels of honour might reap profit. God therfore doth not hate them, in that they are men, or vessels, neither any thing that he made in them by creation, or ordination. For God hateth nothing which he hath made. But in as much as he made them vessels of destruction, he did it to instruct others. As for their impietie which he neuer made, that he hateth vtterlye. As therefore a iudge hateth theft in a man, but he dooth not ⟨image 156⟩hate his punishment that he is sent to worke in the mines. For the theefe doth the first, the Judge the latter: so God, whereas of the company of them which perish, he maketh vessels of perdition, he dooth not therefore hate that which he doth, that is, the condemnation of those which perish in their due punishment for sinne.