A09353:348
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.
Thy God. These are the words of the covenant of grace. Jere. 32.33. Whereby the Lord promiseth to his people, remission of sins, and eternal life. These words are as a second reason of the commandment, drawn from the equality of that relation, which is between God and his people.
Thy God. These are the wordes of the couenant of grace. Iere. 32.33. Whereby the Lord promiseth to his people, remission of sinnes, and eternall life. These woordes are as a second reason of the commaundement, drawen from the equalitie of that relation, which is between God and his people.
If J be thy God, thou again must be my people, and take me alone for thy God.
If J be thy God, thou againe must be my people, and take me alone for thy God.
But J am thy God.