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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 negative part.Chapter 20 › The negatiue 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.
II. Atheism, when the hart denieth either God, or his attributes: as his Justice, Wisdom providence, presence. Psal. 14.1. The fool hath said […] ⟨image 42⟩his hart, there is no God. Ephe. 2.12. Ye had no hope, and were without God in the world. Malach. 1.2. I love you saith the Lord, and ye say, wherein lovest thou us? Mala. 3.13. Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord, yet ye say, wherein have we spoken against thee? ver. 14. Ye have said, it is in vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his commandments, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hosts?
II. Atheisme, when the hart denyeth either God, or his attributes: as his Iustice, Wisdome prouidence, presence. Psal. 14.1. The foole hath saide 〈…〉 ⟨image 42⟩his hart, there is no God. Ephe. 2.12. Ye had no hope, and were without God in the worlde. Malach. 1.2. I loue you saith the Lord, and ye say, wherin louest thou vs? Mala. 3.13. Your woords haue bene stovt against me, saith the Lord, yet ye say, wherin haue we spoken against thee? ver. 14. Yee haue saide, it is in vaine to serue God: and what profit is it that we haue kept his commavndements, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hostes?
III. Errors concerning God, the persons of the Deity, or the attributes. Here is to be reproved Hellenism, which is the acknowledging and adoring of a multitude of Gods. August. in his 6. book of the City of God, chap. 7.