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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.
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.
II. Impotencie, whereby the mind of it selfe is vnable to vnderstand spiritual things, though they be taught. Luk. 24.45. Then opened he their vnderstanding, that they might vnderstand the scriptures. 2. Cor. 3.5. Not that we are sufficiēt of our selues, to think any thing as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God.
III. Vanity, in that the mind thinketh falsehood truth, and truth falsehood. Eph. 4.7. Walk no more as other Gentiles, in the vanity of your understanding. 1. Cor. 1.21. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching, to save those which believe. 23. We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, but to the Grecians foolishness. Prou. 14.12. There is a way which seemeth good in the eyes of men, but the end thereof is death.
III. Vanitie, in that the mind thinketh falshood truth, and truth falshood. Eph. 4.7. Walke no more as other Gentils, in the vanitie of your vnderstanding.