A09353:342
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 Resolution.
J am. If any man rather judge, that these words are a preface to all the commandments, then a part of the first, I hinder him not: Nevertheless, it is like, that they are a persuasion to the keeping of the first commandment: and that they are set before it, to make way unto it: as being more hard to be received, then the rest. And this may appear, in that the three commandments next following, have their several reasons.
J am. If any man rather iudge, that these wordes are a preface to all the commaundementes, then a parte of the first, I hinder him not: Neuertheles, it is like, that they are a perswasion to the keeping of the first commaundement: and that they are set before it, to make way vnto it: as being more hard to be receiued, then the rest. And this may appeare, in that the three commaundements next following, haue their seuerall reasons.
Jehovah. Namely, such one, as from all eternity, was of, and in himself, causing all things to be, when they were not, partly by creating, partly by governing them. Here beginneth the first reason of the first commandment, taken from the name of God: it is thus framed.
Iehouah. Namely, such one, as from all eternitie, was of, and in himselfe, causing all things to be, whē they were not, partly by creating, partlye by gouerning them. Here beginneth the first reason of the firste commaundement, taken from the name of God: it is thus framed.