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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.
Chap. 36. Concerning the first degree of the declaration of Gods love.
Chap. 36. Concerning the first degree of the declaration of Gods loue.
The first degree, is an effectual calling, whereby a sinner being severed from the world, is entertained into Gods family. Ephess. 2.17. And came, and preached peace to you, which were a far off, and to them that were near. 19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but citizen• with the Saints, and of the household of God.
THe first degree, is an effectuall calling, whereby a sinner being seuered from the worlde, is entertayned into Gods familie. Ephess. 2.17. And came, and preached peace to you, which were a farre off, and to them that were neere. 19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and forreners, but citizen• with the Saintes, and of the houshold of God.
Of this, there be three parts. The first is Election, which is a separation of a sinner, from the cursed estate of all mankind. Joh. 15.19. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.