A09353:812
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.
Infants within the covenant, are such, as have one at the least of their parents faithful. 1. Cor. 7.14. The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, ⟨image 113⟩else were your children unclean, but now they are holy. Rom. 11.16. If the first fruits be holy, so is the whole lump•: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. Gen. 17.7. I will establish my covenant between me & thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God unto thee, and thy seed after thee. verse 13. He that is borne in thine house, and he that is bought with money, must needs be circumcised: so my covenant shall be in your flesh, for an everlasting covenant. Act. 16.31. They said, Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved and thy whole household.
Infantes within the couenant, are such, as haue one at the least of their parents faithfull. 1. Cor. 7.14. The vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified by the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified by the husbande, ⟨image 113⟩else were your children vncleane, but now they are holy. Rom. 11.16. If the first fruites be holy, so is the whole lump•: and if the roote be holy, so are the branches. Gen. 17.7. I will establish my couenant betweene me & thee, and thy seede after thee, in their generations, for an euerlasting couenant, to be God vnto thee, and thy seede after thee. verse 13. Hee that is borne in thine house, and he that is bought with money, must needes be circumcised: so my couenant shalbe in your flesh, for an euerlasting couenant.