A09353:349
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.
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.
Therefore thou must be my people, and take me alone for thy God.
The assumption or second part of this reason, is confirmed by an argument taken from Gods effects, when he delivered his people out of Egypt, as it were, from the servitude of a most tyrannous master. This delivery was not appropriate only to the Israelites, but in some sort to the Church of God in all ages: in that it was a type of a more surpassing delivery, from that fearful kingdom of darkness, 1. Cor. 10.1, 2. J would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our Fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the red Sea, and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud, and in the Sea,