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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 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 Joh. 14.6. I am the way, the trueth, and the Life. 1. Joh. 1.7. But if we walk in light as he is in light, conferred with the 5. God is light & in him is no darkness. Hence it is manifest, that to have Life, and to be Life: to be in Light, and to be Light: in God are all one. Neither is God subject to generality or speciality: whole, or parts: matter, ⟨image 4⟩or that which is made of matter: for so there should be in God divers things, and one more perfect then another: therefore whatsoever is in God, is his essence. and all that he is, he is by his essence.
The simplenes of his nature, is that by which he is voide of all Logicall relation. He hath not in him, subiect or adiunct. Ioh. 5.26. As the Father hath life in himselfe, so hath he giuen to the Sonne to haue life in him selfe: Conferred with Ioh. 14.6. I am the way, the trueth, and the Life. 1. Ioh. 1.7. But if we walk in light as he is in light, conferred with the 5. God is light & in him is no darknes. Hence it is manifest, that to haue Life, and to be Life: to be in Light, and to be Light: in God are all one. Neither is God subiect to generalitie or specialitie: whole, or partes: matter, ⟨image 4⟩or that which is made of matter: for so ther shold be in God diuers things, and one more perfect then another: therfore whatsoeuer is in God, is his essence. and all that he is, he is by his essence.