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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
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.
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. Gen. 3.7. Or in women pains in childbirth. Gen. 3.16. Unto the woman he said, J will greatly increase thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring fo•h Children.
The firste is in this life, and that diuers wayes. The first concerneth the body, either in the prouision with trouble for the thinges of this life. Gen. 3.17. Or a pronnesse to disease. Math. 9.2. Sonne be of good comfort, thy sinnes be forgiuen thee. Ioh. 5.14. Beholde thou art made whole, sinne no more, least a woorse thing fall vpon thee. Deut. 28.21.22. The Lord shall make the pestilence cleaue vnto thee, vntill he hath consumed thee from the land, &c. Or shame of nakednes. Gen. 3.7. Or in women paines in childbirth. Gen. 3.16. Vnto the woman hee said, J will greatlye increase thy sorrowes, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring foh Children.