A09353:181
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 will received. I. An impotency. whereby it cannot will, or so much as lust after that, which is indeed good, that is, which may please & be acceptable to God. 1. Cor. 2.14. The natural man perc• ueth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, be• ⟨image 21⟩they are spiritually discerned. Rom. 5.6. Christ, when we were yet of no strength, at his time dyed for the ungodly. 2. Tim. 2.26. Phil. 2.13. It is God which worketh in you both the will and the deed, even of his good pleasure.
The will receiued. I. An impotencie. wherby it cannot will, or so much as lust after that, which is indeed good, that is, which may please & be acceptable to God. 1. Cor. 2.14. The naturall man perc• ueth not the things of the Spirite of God, for they are foolishnes vnto him: neither can he knowe them, be• ⟨image 21⟩they are spiritually discerned. Rom. 5.6. Christ, when we were yet of no strength, at his time dyed for the vngodlye. 2. Tim. 2.26. Phil. 2.13. It is God which woorketh in you both the will and the deed, euen of his good pleasure.