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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 communion of the persons, or rather union, is that by which each one is in the rest, and with the rest, by reason of the unity of the Godhead: and therefore every each one doth possess love, and glorify another, and work the same thing. Joh. 14.10. Believest thou not that J am in the Father, and the Father is in me? the words that I speak unto you, J speak not of my self but my Father that dwelleth in me, he doth the works. Pro. 8.22. The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: J was before his works of old. And vers. 30. Then was J with him as a nourisher, and J was daily his delight, rejoicing alway before him. Joh. 1.1. In the beginning was the word, & the word was with God, and that word was God. & Chap. 5.19. The Son can do nothing of himself, save that he seeth the Father do: for whatsoever things he doth, the same doth the Son also.
The communion of the persons, or rather vnion, is that by which eche one is in the rest, and with the rest, by reason of the vnitie of the Godhead: and therefore euerye eche one doth possesse loue, and glorifie another, and work the same thing. Ioh. 14.10. Beleeuest thou not that J am in the Father, and the Father is in me? the wordes that I speak vnto you, J speake not of my selfe but my Father that dwelleth in me, he doth the workes. Pro. 8.22. The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: J was before his workes of olde. And vers. 30. Then was J with him as a nourisher, and J was dayly his delight, reioycing alwaye before him. Ioh. 1.1. Jn the beginning was the word, & the word was with God, and that word was God. & Chap. 5.19. The Sonne can doo nothing of himselfe, saue that he seeth the Father doo: for whatsoeuer things he doth, the same doth the Sonne also.