A09353:217
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
Chapter 14: Of the punishment of sin.Chapter 14: Of the punishment of sinne.
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.
Chap. 14. Of the punishment of sin.
Chap. 14. Of the punishment of sinne.
Hitherto we have entreated of sin, wherewith all mankind is infected: in the next place succeedeth the punishment of sin, which is threefold.
HItherto we haue entreated of sinne, wherewith all mankinde is infected: in the next place succeedeth the punishment of sinne, which is threefolde.
The first is in this life, and that divers ways. The first concerneth the body, either in the provision with trouble for the things of this life. Gen. 3.17. Or a proneness to disease. Math. 9.2. Son be of good comfort, thy sins be forgiven thee. Joh. 5.14. Behold thou art made whole, sin no more, least a worse thing fall upon thee. Deut. 28.21.22. The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he hath consumed thee from the land, &c. Or shame of nakedness.