A09353:141
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 of men, and Angels.
The fall of Angels, that is, by which the understanding, pointing at a more excellent estate, and of it own accord approving the same, together with the will making especial choice thereof: they, albeit they might freely by their integrity, have chosen the contrary, were the sole instruments of their fall from God. 2. Pet. 2.4. If God spared not the Angels which sinned, but cast them down into hell, & delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept unto ⟨image 16⟩damnation, &c. Jude 6. The Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains, &c. Joh. 8.44. He was a murderer from the beginning, and continued not in the truth: for there is no truth in him.
The fall of Angels, that is, by which the vnderstanding, pointing at a more excellent estate, and of it owne accord approouing the same, together with the will making especial choyce therof: they, albeit they might freely by their integritie, haue chosen the contrarie, were the sole instruments of their fall from God. 2. Pet. 2.4. If God spared not the Angels which sinned, but cast them downe into hell, & deliuered them into chaines of darkenes, to be kept vnto ⟨image 16⟩damnation, &c. Iude 6. The Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their owne habitation, he hath reserued in euerlasting chaines, &c. Ioh. 8.44