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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
Chapter 22 › The affirmative part.Chapter 22 › The affirmitiue parte.
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.
III. An holy commemoration of the creature, whereby we, in the contemplation and admiration of the dignity and excellency thereof, yield an approbation when we name it, and celebrate the praise of God, brightly shining in the same. Psalm. 64.9, 10. And all men shall see it, and declare the work of God, and they shall understand what he hath wrought: but the righteous shall be glad in the Lord and trust in him, and all that are upright of hart shall rejoice. Luk. 2.18, 19. And all they that heard it, wondered at the things that were told them of the shepherds: but Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her hart. Jer. 5.22. Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? or will ye not be afraid at my presence, which have placed the sands for the bounds of the seas, by the perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it, and though the waves thereof rage, yet can they not prevail, though they roar, yet can they not pass over.
III. An holy commemoration of the creature, whereby we, in the contemplation and admiration of the dignitie and excellency therof, yeelde an approbation when wee name it, and celebrate the praise of God, brightly shining in the same. Psalm. 64.9, 10. And all men shall see it, and declare the worke of God, and they shal vnderstand what he hath wrought: but the righteous shall be glad in the Lord and trust in him, and all that are vpright of hart shall reioyce. Luk. 2.18, 19. And all they that heard it, wondred at the things that were tolde them of the shepheardes: but Mary kept all these things and pondred them in her hart. Ier. 5.22. Feare ye not me, saith the Lord? or will ye not be afraide at my presence, which haue placed the sandes for the bounds of the seas, by the perpetual decree, that it cannot passe it, and though the waues therof rage, yet can they not preuaile, though they roare, yet can they not passe ouer.