A09353:72
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 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? Col. 1.15. Who is the •age of the invisible God, the first borne of every creature. Joh. 1.14. And we saw the glory thereof as the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father. Rom. 8.32. He who spared ⟨image 9⟩not his own Sonne.
The Sonne is the second person, begotten of the Father, from all eternitie. Heb. 1.5. For vnto which of the Angels said he at any time, thou art my Sonne this day begat I thee? Col. 1.15. Who is the •age of the inuisible God, the first borne of euery creature. Ioh. 1.14. And we saw the glorie therof as the glory of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father. Rom. 8.32. He who spared ⟨image 9⟩not his owne Sonne.
For this cause he is said to be sent from the Father. Joh. 8.42. I proceeded forth and came from God, neither came I of my self but he sent me. This sending taketh not away the equality of essence and power, but declareth the order of the persons.