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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.
Mans promise to God, is that, whereby he voweth his allegiance unto his Lord, and to perform the condition between them.
Mans promise to God, is that, whereby he voweth his allegiance vnto his Lord, and to perfourme the condition between them.
Again, there are two kinds of this covenant. The covenant of works, and the covenant of grace. Jere. 31.31, 32, 33. Behold, the days come saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, Not according to the covenant that I made with their Fathers, when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: the which my covenant they brake although I was husband to them, saith the Lord. But this shall be the covenant, that I will make with the house of Israel: after those ⟨image 38⟩days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their harts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Againe, there are two kindes of this couenaunt. The couenant of works, and the couenant of grace. Iere. 31.31, 32, 33. Beholde, the dayes come saith the Lord, that I will make a newe couenaunt with the house of Israell, and with the house of Iudah, Not according to the couenaunt that I made with their Fathers, when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egipt: the which my couenaunt they brake although I was husband to them, saith the Lord. But this shalbe the couenāt, that I wil make with the house of Israel: after those ⟨image 38⟩dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my lawe in their inward partes, and write it in their harts, and will be their God, and they shalbe my people.