A09353:798
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 mutual relation of the parts of a Sacrament, is an agreeable union and respect, of external & internal, both things with things, & actions with actions, according to Gods holy institutions ⟨image 112⟩by which it is made a Sacrament, because the signs incurring into the external senses, do by a certain proportion move a Christian mind to consider the things signified, and also to apply them unto their holy end.
The mutuall relation of the partes of a Sacrament, is an agreeable vnion and respect, of externall & internall, both things with things, & actions with actions, according to Gods holy institutions ⟨image 112⟩by which it is made a Sacramēt, because the signes incurring into the externall senses, doe by a certaine proportion mooue a Christian minde to consider the things signified, and also to apply them vnto their holy end.
This mutual, and as I may say, sacramental relation, is the cause of so many figurative speeches, and metonymies, which are used: as, when one thing in the sacrament is put for an other. As,
This mutuall, and as I may say, sacramentall relation, is the cause of so many figuratiue speeches, and metonymies, which are vsed: as, when one thing in the sacrament is put for an other. As,
I. The sign is used for the thing signified. Exo. 12.11. Ye shall eat it (namely the Lamb) in haste, for it is the Lords passover.