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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
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.
Ministering angels, are such as wait upon the devil, in accomplishing his wickedness.
Ministring angels, are such as waite vpon the deuill, in accomplishing his wickednesse.
III. Their punishment. God, after their fall, gave them over to perpetual torments, without any hope of pardon. Jude ver. 6.2. Pet. 2.4. God spared not the Angels that had sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept unto damnation. This he did, first, to admonish men, what great punishment they deserved. Secondly, to show, that grievous sins must more grievously be punished.
III. Their punishment. God, after their fall, gaue them ouer to perpetuall tormentes, without any hope of pardon. Iude ver. 6.2. Pet. 2.4. God spared not the Angels that had sinned, but cast them downe into hell, and deliuered them into chaines of darkenesse, to be kept vnto damnation. This he did, first, to admonish men, what great punishment they deserued. Secondly, to shew, that grieuous sinnes must more grieuously be punished.
The fall of Angels was the more grievous, because both their nature was more able to resist, and the devil was the first founder of sin.
The fall of Angels was the more grieuous, because both their nature was more able to resist, and the deuill was the first founder of sinne.