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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.
Fourthly, they are in the highest heaven, where they ever attend upon God, and have society with him. Matth. 18.10. In heaven their angels always behold the face of my father which is in heaven. Psal. 78.17. The chariots of God are twenty thousand thousand angels, and the Lord is among them. Mar. 12.25. But are as angels in heaven.
Fourthly, they are in the highest heauen, where they euer attend vpon God, and haue societie with him. Matth. 18.10. In heauen their angels alwaies behold the face of my father which is in heauen. Psal. 78.17. The charets of God are twentie thousand thousande angels, and the Lord is among them. Mar. 12.25. But are as angels in heauen.
Fifthly, their degree. That there are degrees of angels, it is most plain. Coloss. 1.16. By him were all things created, which are in heaven, & in earth, things visible and invisible: whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Rom. 8.38. Neither Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, &c. 1. Thess. 4.16. ⟨image 13⟩The Lord shall descend with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God. But it is not for us to search, who, or how many be of each order, neither ought we curiously to enquire how they are distinguished, whether in essence, or qualities.