A09353:203
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.
Abstraction, is the first cogitation of committing ⟨image 23⟩sin, whereby the mind is with-drawn from Gods service, to the which it should be always ready prest. Luke. 10.27. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy hart, and all thy soul, with all thy thought.
Abstraction, is the firste cogitation of committing ⟨image 23⟩sinne, whereby the minde is with-drawne from Gods seruice, to the which it shoulde be alwaies readye prest. Luke. 10.27. Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy hart, and all thy soule, with all thy thought.
Inescation, is that whereby an evil thought conceived, and for a time retained in the mind, by delighting the will, and affections, doth as it were, lay a bait for them to draw them to consent.
Inescation, is that wherby an euill thought conceiued, and for a time retained in the minde, by delighting the will, and affections, doth as it were, lay a baite for them to draw them to consent.
The second degree, is conception, which is nothing else, but a consent and resolution to commit sin. Psalm. 7.14. He shall travail with wickedness, he hath conceived mischief, but he shall bring forth a lye.