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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 incommunicable property of the Father, is to be unbegotten. He is the beginning of actions, because he beginneth every action of himself, effecting it by the Son & the holy ghost. 1. Cor. 8.6. Yet unto us, there is but one God, which is the Father of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. Rom. 11.36. For of him, and through him, and for him are all things.
The incommunicable propertie of the Father, is to be vnbegotten. He is the beginning of actions, because he beginneth euery action of himselfe, effecting it by the Sonne & the holy ghost. 1. Cor. 8.6. Yet vnto vs, there is but one God, which is the Father of whome are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Iesus Christ, by whome are all thinges, and we by him. Rom. 11.36. For of him, and through him, and for him are all things.
The other two persons have the Godhead, or the whole divine essence, of the Father by communication, namely the Son and the holy Ghost.
The other two persons haue the Godhead, or the whole diuine essence, of the Father by communication, namely the Sonne and the holy Ghost.
The Son is the second person, begotten of the Father, from all eternity. Heb. 1.5. For unto which of the Angels said he at any time, thou art my Son this day begat I thee?