A09353:345
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.
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.
He that is Jehovah, must alone be thy God. But I am Jehovah: Therefore J alone must be thy God.
He that is Iehouah, must alone be thy God. But I am Jehouah: Therfore J alone must be thy God.
The proposition is wanting: the assumption is ⟨image 39⟩in these words (J am Jehovah) the conclusion is the commandment.
The proposition is wanting: the assumption is ⟨image 39⟩in these words (J am Jehouah) the conclusion is the commaundement.