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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.
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. Joh. 5.18. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, not only because he had broken the Sabaoth, but said also that god was his Father, and made himself equal with God. Phil. 2.6. Who being in the form of God, thought is no robbery to be equal with God.
For this cause he is saide to be sent from the Father. Ioh. 8.42. I proceeded forth and came from God, neither came I of my selfe but he sent me. This sending taketh not away the equalitie of essence and power, but declareth the order of the persons. Ioh. 5.18. Therefore the Iewes sought the more to kill him, not only because he had broken the Sabaoth, but said also that god was his Father, and made himself equall with God. Phil. 2.6. Who being in the forme of God, thought is no robbery to be equall with God.
For this cause also he is the WORD of the father, not a vanishing but an essential word, because as a word, is as it were begotten of the mind, so is the Son begotten of the Father. And also, because he bringeth glad tidings from the bosom of his Father. Nazian in his oration of the Son, Basil in his preface before Johns gospel.
For this cause also he is the WORD of the father, not a vanishing but an essentiall woord, because as a word, is as it were begotten of the minde, so is the Sonne begotten of the Father. And also, because he bringeth glad tidinges from the bosome of his Father. Nazian in his oration of the Sonne, Basil in his preface before Iohns gospell.