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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 perfection of the nature of God, is his absolute constitution, by the which he is wholly complete within himself. Exod. 3.13. I am that I am, Act. 17.24. God that made the world, and all things that are therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in Temples made with hands, neither is worshipped with mens hands. As though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life & breath and all things.
The perfection of the nature of God, is his absolute constitution, by the which he is wholye complete within himselfe. Exod. 3.13. I am that I am, Act. 17.24. God that made the worlde, and all thinges that are therein, seeing that he is Lord of heauen and earth, dwelleth not in Temples made with handes, neyther is worshipped with mens handes. As though he needed any thing, seeing he giueth to all life & breath and all things.
The perfection of his nature is either the Simpleness or the infiniteness thereof.
The perfection of his nature is either the Simplenes or the infinitenes thereof.
The simpleness of his nature, is that by which he is void of all Logical relation. He hath not in him, subject or adjunct. Joh. 5.26. As the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in him self: Conferred with