A09353:442
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 21 › The negative part.Chapter 21 › The negatiue part.
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.
If then it be so heinous a thing, to reverence the creature, much more to pray unto it, whether it be Saint or Angel. Rom. 10.14. How shall they call upon him, in who• they have not believed. Matth. 4.10. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
If then it be so hainous a thing, to reuerence the creature, much more to pray vnto it, whether it be Saint or Angell. Rom. 10.14. How shall they call vpon him, in who• they haue not beleeued. Matth. 4.10. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him onely shalt thou serue.
Neither may we pray unto Christ as he is only man, but as he is God and man: for we direct not our prayers to the humanity, but to the deity, to which the humanity is knit by an hypostatical union.
Neither may we pray vnto Christ as he is onely man, but as he is God and man: for wee direct not our prayers to the humanitie, but to the deitie, to which the humanity is knit by an hypostatical vniō.