A09353:405
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.
Jealous God. This speech is taken from the estate of wedlock, for God is called the husband of his Church. Isaiah. 54.5. Ephes. 5.26, 27. and our spiritual worship is, as it were a certain marriage of our souls, consecrated unto the Lord. Jerm. 2.2. I remember thee with the kindness of thy youth, and ⟨image 45⟩the love of thy marriage, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Here is an other argument drawn from a comparison of things that be like. Gods people must alone worship him, because they are linked to him as a wife is to her husband, unto whom alone she is bound: therefore if his people forsake him, and betroth them selves unto idols, he will undoubtedly give them a bill of divorcement, and they shall be no more espoused unto him.
Aielous God. This speech is taken from the estate of wedlocke, for God is called the husband of his Church. Esay. 54.5. Ephes. 5.26, 27. and our spirituall worshippe is, as it were a certaine marriage of our soules, consecrated vnto the Lorde. Ierm. 2.2. I remember thee with the kindnesse of thy youth, and ⟨image 45⟩the loue of thy marriage, when thou wentest after me in the wildernes, in a land that was not sowen. Here is an other argument drawen from a cōparison of things that be like. Gods people must alone worship him, because they are linked to him as a wife is to her husband, vnto whome alone she is bound: therfore if his people forsake him, and betroth them selues vnto idols, he will vndoubtedly giue them a bill of diuorcement, and they shall be no more espoused vnto him.