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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.
Predestination hath two parts; Election, and reprobation. 1. Thes. 5.9. God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by the means of our Lord Jesus Christ.
PRedestination hath two partes; Election, and reprobation. 1. Thes. 5.9. God hath not appointed vs to wrath, but to obtaine saluation by the meanes of our Lord Iesus Christ.
Election, is Gods decree, whereby on his own free will, he hath ordained certain men to salvation, to the praise of the glory of his grace. Ephes. 1.4.5.6. He hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace.
Election, is Gods decree, whereby on his owne free will, he hath ordeined certaine men to saluation, to the praise of the glorie of his grace. Ephes. 1.4.5.6. He hath chosen vs in him, before the foundation of the world, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glorie of his grace.
This decree, is that book of life, wherein are written the names of the Elect. Revel. 20.12. Another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged of those things, that were written in the books, according to their works.