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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 24 › The affirmative part.Chapter 24 › The affirmatiue 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. Thankfulness in our prayers. 1. Timothy 2.1, 2. I exhort ye therefore, that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for Kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godliness, and honesty. 1. Tim. 5.17. Elders that rule well, are worthy of double honour. Genesis 45.9. Haste you, and go up to my father, and tell him, thus saith thy Son Joseph, God hath made me Lord over all Egypt, come down to me, tarry not, 10. and then shall dwell in the land of Goshen. 11. Also I will nourish thee there, for yet remain five years of famine, least thou perish through poverty, thou & thy household, and all that thou hast.
III. Thankfulnes in our praiers. 1. Timothie 2.1, 2. I exhorte ye therfore, that first of all, supplications, praiers, intercessions, and giuing of thankes bee made for all men, for Kings, and for all that are in authoritye, that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godlynes, and honesty. 1. Tim. 5.17. Elders that rule wel, are worthie of double honour. Genesis 45.9. Haste you, and goe vp to my father, and tell him, thus saith thy Sonne Ioseph, God hath made me Lord ouer all Egipt, come downe to me, tarrie not, 10. and then shnll dwell in the land of Goshen. 11. Also I will nourishe thee there, for yet remaine fiue yeres of famine, least thou perrish through pouertie, thou & thy houshold, and al that thou hast.
Thirdly, towards those that excel us in gifts, our duty is to acknowledge the same gifts, and speak of them to their praise. 1. Corinthians. 22, 23.