A09353:168
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.
Mens minds received from Adam, 1. Ignorance, namely, a want, or rather a deprivation of knowledge in the things of God, whether they concern ⟨image 19⟩his sincere worship, or eternal happiness. 1. Cor. 2.14. The natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, nether can he knew them, because they are spiritually discerned. Rom. 8.7. The wisdom of the flesh is enmity with God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Mens minds receiued from Adam, 1. Ignorance, namely, a want, or rather a depriuation of knowledge in the things of God, whether they concerne ⟨image 19⟩his sincere worship, or eternall happines. 1. Cor. 2.14. The natural mā perceiueth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishnes vnto him, nether can he knew thē, because they are spiritually discerned. Rom. 8.7. The wisedome of the flesh is enimitie with God, for it is not subiect to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
II. Impotency, whereby the mind of it self is unable to understand spiritual things, though they be taught. Luk. 24.45. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. 2. Cor. 3.5. Not that we are sufficient of our selves, to think any thing as of our selves: but our sufficiency is of God.