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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
Chapter 9: Of man, and the estate of innocency.Chapter 9: Of man, and the estate of innocencie.
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.
II. The integrity of mans nature. Which was Ephes. 4.24. created in righteousness and true holiness. This integrity hath two parts.
II. The integritie of mans nature. Which was Ephes. 4.24. created in righteousnes and true holines. This integritie hath two partes.
The first is wisdom, which is a true and ⟨image 14⟩perfect knowledge of God, & of his will, in as much as it is to be performed of man, yea, and of the counsel of God in all his creatures. Col. 3.10. And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him. Gen. 2.19. When the Lord God had formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every foul of the heaven, he brought them unto the man, to see how he would call them: for howsoever the man called the living creature, so was the name thereof.
The first is wisedome, which is a true and ⟨image 14⟩perfect knowledg of God, & of his will, in as much as it is to be performed of man, yea, and of the counsaile of God in all his creatures. Col. 3.10. And haue put on the newe man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him. Gen. 2.19. When the Lord God had formed of the earth euerie beast of the field, and euery foule of the heauen, he brought them vnto the man, to see how he would cal thē: for howsoeuer the man called the liuing creature, so was the name thereof.