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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
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 foreknowledge of God, is that by which he most assuredly foreseeth all things that are to come. Act. 2.23. Him have ye taken by the hands of the wicked, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, and have crucified and slain, Rom. 8. Those which he knew before, he also predestinated to be made like to the image of his Sonne. This is not properly spoken of God, but by reason of men to whom things are past, or to come.
The foreknowledge of God, is that by which he most assuredly foreseeth all thinges that are to come. Act. 2.23. Him haue ye taken by the handes of the wicked, being deliuered by the determinate counsell and foreknowledge of God, and haue crucified and slain, Rom. 8. Those which he knew before, he also predestinated to be made like to the image of his Sonne. This is not properly spoken of God, but by reason of men to whom things are past, or to come.
The counsel of God, is that by which he doth most straitly perceive the best reason of all things that are Pro. 8.14. I have counsel & wisdom: I am understanding, and I have strength.
The counsell of God, is that by which he doth most straightlye perceiue the best reason of all things that are Pro. 8.14. I haue counsell & wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue shrength.