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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.
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.
God willeth that which is good, by approuing it, that which is euill, in as much as it is euill, by disalowing and not willing it. And yet he voluntarily doth permit euill: Because it is good that there should be euill. Act. 14.16. Who in times past suffered all the Gentils to walke in their owne waies. Psal. 81.12. So I gaue them vp to the hardnes of their heart, and they haue walked in their owne counsels.
The will of God, by reason of divers objects hath divers Names, and is either called Love and Hatred, or Grace and Justice.
The will of God, by reason of diuers obiectes hath diuers Names, and is either called Loue and Hatred, or Grace and Iustice.
The love of God, is that, by the which God approveth first, himself, and then all his creatures without their desert, & in them doth take delight. 1. Joh. 4.16. God is love, and who so remaineth in love, remaineth in God, and God in him.