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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.
Gods commandment concerning the trees, was ordained to make examination, and trial of mans obedience. It consisteth of two parts: the first, is the eating of the tree of life, that as a sign, it might confirm to man, his perpetual abode in the garden of Eden, if still he persisted in obedience. Revel. 2.7. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the middest of the paradise of God. Prou. 3.18. She is a tree of life to them which lay hold on her: and blessed is he that retaineth her. The second, is the prohibition to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, together with a commination of temporal & eternal death, after the transgression of this commandment. Gen. 2.17. Of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death. This was a sign of death, and had his name of the event, because the observation thereof would have brought perpetual happiness, as the violation gave experience of evil, that is, of all misery, that is, of punishment and of guiltiness of sin.
Gods commaundement concerning the trees, was ordeined to make examination, and triall of mans obedience. It consisteth of two partes: the first, is the eating of the tree of life, that as a signe, it might confirme to man, his perpetuall abode in the garden of Heden, if still he persisted in obedience. Reuel. 2.7. To him that ouercōmeth will I giue to eate of the tree of life, which is in the middest of the paradise of God. Prou. 3.18. She is a tree of life to them which lay holde on her: and blessed is he that retaineth her. The second, is the prohibition to eate of the tree of the knowledge of good and euill, together with a commination of temporal & eternall death, after the transgression of this commaundement. Gen. 2.17. Of the tree of knowledge of good and euill, thou shalt not eate of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death. This was a signe of death, and had his name of the euent, because the obseruation thereof would haue brought perpetuall happinesse, as the violation gaue experience of euill, that is, of all miserie, that is, of punishment and of guiltinesse of sinne.