A09353:801
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.
II. The name of the thing signified is given to the sign: as, The bread is Christs body, the cup is Christs blood. 1. Cor. 11.24. Mat. 26.28.
II. The name of the thing signified is giuen to the signe: as, The bread is Christs bodie, the cuppe is Christs bloud. 1. Cor. 11.24. Mat. 26.28.
III. The effect of the thing signified is given to the sign as circumcision is a covenant. Gen. 17.10. Act. 7.8. The cup is the new testament in Christs blood. Luk. 22.16. Baptism is the washing of the new birth.
III. The effect of the thing signified is giuen to the signe as circumcision is a couenant. Gen. 17.10. Act. 7.8. The cup is the new testament in Christs bloud. Luk. 22.16. Baptisme is the washing of the new birth.