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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.
The execution of this decree, is an action, by which God, even as he purposed with himself, worketh all those things, which he decreed for the salvation of the elect. For they whom God elected to this end, that they should inherit eternal life, were also elected to those subordinate means, whereby, as by steppes, they might attain this end, and without which it were impossible to obtain it. Rom. 8.29.30. Those which he knew before, he also predestinate ⟨image 26⟩to be made like the image of his son, that he might be the first born amongst many brethren: moreover whom he predestinate, them he called, whom he called, then he justified, and whom he justified, them also he glorified.
The execution of this decree, is an action, by which God, euen as he purposed with himself, worketh all those things, which he decreede for the saluation of the elect. For they whome God elected to this end, that they should inherite eternall life, were also elected to those subordinat means, wherby, as by steppes, they might attaine this ende, and without which it were impossible to obtaine it. Rom. 8.29.30. Those which he knew before, he also predestinate ⟨image 26⟩to be made like the image of his sonne, that hee might be the first born amongst many brethren: moreouer whom he predestinate, them he called, whom he called, thē he iustified, and whom he iustified, them also he glorified.
There appertain three things to the execution of this decree. First, the foundation. Secondly, the means. Thirdly, the degrees.
There appertaine three things to the execution of this decree. First, the foundation. Secondlye, the meanes. Thirdly, the degrees.