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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 will of God, is that by the which he both ⟨image 6⟩most freely, and straitly with one act willeth all things. Rom. 9.18. He hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth. Eph. 1.5. Who hath predestinate us to be adopted through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. Jam. 4.15. For that which you should say, if the Lord will, we will live and do this or that.
The will of God, is that by the which he both ⟨image 6⟩most freely, and straitly with one act willeth all thinges. Rom. 9.18. He hath mercie on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth. Eph. 1.5. Who hath predestinate vs to be adopted through Iesus Christ vnto himselfe, according to the good pleasure of his will. Iam. 4.15. For that which you should say, if the Lord will, we will liue and doe this or that.
God willeth that which is good, by approving it, that which is evil, in as much as it is evil, by disallowing and not willing it. And yet he voluntarily doth permit evil: Because it is good that there should be evil. Act. 14.16. Who in times past suffered all the Gentiles to walk in their own ways. Psal. 81.12. So I gave them up to the hardness of their heart, and they have walked in their own counsels.