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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
Chapter 20 › The Affirmative part.Chapter 20 › The Affirmatiue parte.
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 marks of the true love of God, are these.
The marks of the true loue of God, are these.
I. To hear willingly his word. II. To speak often of him. III. To think often of him. IIII. To do his will without irksomeness. V. To give body, and all for his cause. VI. To desire his presence above all, and to bewail his absence. VII. To embrace all such things as appertain to him. VIII. To love and hate that, which he loveth and hateth. IX. In all things to seek to please him. X. To draw others unto the love of him. XI. To esteem lightly of such gifts and graces as he bestoweth. XII. To stay our selves upon his counsels revealed in his word. Lastly, to call upon his name with affiance.
I. To heare willinglye his woorde. II. To speake often of him. III. To think often of him. IIII. To doo his will without irkesomnes. V. To giue bodye, and all for his cause. VI. To desire his presence aboue all, and to bewaile his absence. VII. To embrace all such thinges as appertaine to him. VIII. To loue and hate that, which he loueth and hateth. IX. In all thinges to seeke to please him. X. To drawe others vnto the loue of him. XI. To esteeme lightly of such giftes and graces as he bestoweth. XII. To staye our selues vpon his counsailes reueiled in his word. Lastly, to call vpon his name with affiance.
The fear of God, is that whereby man, acknowledging Gods both mercy and justice, doth, as it were a capital crime, fear to displease God. Psal. 130.3. With thee is mercy, that thou mayest be feared. Haba. 3.16. When I heard it, my belly trembled, my lips shook at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my self, that I might rest in the day of trouble, when he cometh up against the people to destroy them.