A09353:164
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 propagation of sin, from the parents to the children, is either because the soul is infected by the contagion of the body, as a good ointment by a fusty vessel: or because God, in the very moment of creation & infusion of souls into infants, doth utterly forsake them. For as Adam received the image of God both for himself and others: so did he loose it from himself and others.
The propagation of sinne, from the parents to the children, is either because the soule is infected by the contagion of the body, as a good ointment by a fustie vessell: or because God, in the very moment of creation & infusion of soules into infants, doth vtterly forsake them. For as Adam receiued the image of God both for himselfe and others: so did he loose it from himselfe and others.
That we may the better know original sin in the several faculties of mans nature, three circumstances must be considered.
That we may the better know originall sinne in the seuerall faculties of mans nature, three circumstances must be considered.
1. How much of Gods image we yet retain. 2. How much sin man received from Adam. 3. The increase thereof afterward.
1. How much of Gods image we yet retaine. 2. How much sinne man receiued from Adam. 3. The increase thereof afterward.