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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.
Chap. 8. Of Angels.
The Angels each of them being created in the beginning, were settled in an upright estate. In whom these things are to be noted. First their nature. Angels are spiritual, and incorporeal essences. Heb. 2.16. For be in no sort took the Angels, but he took the seed of Abraham. Heb. 1.7. And of the angels, he saith, he maketh the spirit his messengers, & his ministers a flame of fire.
THe Angels ech of them being created in the beginning, were setled in an vpright estate. In whom these thinges are to be noted. First their nature. Angels are spirituall, and incorporall essences. Heb. 2.16. For be in no sort tooke the Angels, but he tooke the seede of Abraham. Heb. 1.7. And of the angels, he saith, he maketh the spirite his messengers, & his ministers a flame of fire.
Secondly, their qualities. First they are wise 2. Sam. 14.18. My Lord the king is eve• at an ell of God in haring good and bad. 2. They are of great might.