A09353:143
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.
In the fall of Angels, consider: First, their corruption, arising from their fall, which is the depravation of their nature. And is either that fearful malice and hatred, by which they set them selves against God, or their insatiable desire to destroy mankind, to the effecting whereof, they neglect neither force nor fraud. 1. Joh. 3.8. He that committeth sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. For this cause was the Son of God revealed, to dissolve the works of the devil. 1. Pet. 5.8. Your adversary the devil goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Ephes. 6.12. You strive not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and power, and worldly governors, the princes of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickednesses, which are in supercelestial things.
In the fall of Angels, consider: First, their corruption, arising from their fall, which is the deprauation of their nature. And is eyther that fearefull malice and hatred, by which they set them selues against God, or their insatiable desire to destroy mankinde, to the effecting whereof, they neglect neither force nor fraude. 1. Ioh. 3.8. He that committeth sinne is of the deuill, because the deuill sinned from the beginning. For this cause was the Sonne of God reuealed, to dissolue the workes of the deuill. 1. Pet. 5.8. Your aduersarie the deuill goeth about like a roaring lyon, seeking whom he may deuour. Ephes. 6.12. You striue not against flesh and bloud, but against principalities, and power, and worldly gouernours, the princes of darkenesse of this world, against spirituall wickednesses, which are in supercelestiall thinges.