A09353:138
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.
The fall, is a revolting of the reasonable creature from obedience to sin.
THe fall, is a reuolting of the reasonable creature from obedience to sinne.
Sin is the corruption, or rather deprivation of the first integrity. More plainly it is a falling ⟨image 15⟩or turning from God, binding the offender by the course of Gods justice, to undergo the punishment.
Sinne is the corruption, or rather depriuation of the first integritie. More plainely it is a falling ⟨image 15⟩or turning from God, binding the offendor by the course of Gods iustice, to vndergoe the punishment.
The fall was effected on this manner. First, God created his reasonable creatures good indeed, but withal changeable, as we have showed before. For to be unchangeably good, is proper to God alone. Secondly, God tried their obedience, in those things, about whi•h they were conversant. Deut. 13.13. Thou shalt not hearken to the words of the Prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for the lord your God proveth you, to know whether you love the Lord your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul. Thirdly, in this trial God doth not assist them with new grace to stand, but for just causes forsaketh them. Lastly, after God hath forsaken them, and left them to themselves, they fall quite from God: no otherwise, then when a man staying up a staff from the ground, it standeth upright, but if he never so little withdraw his hand, it falleth of it self.