A09353:848
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.
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.
Of this, there be three partes. The first is Election, which is a separation of a sinner, from the cursed estate of all mankinde. Ioh. 15.19. If ye were of the world, the world would loue his owne but because yee are not of the world, but I haue chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
The second is, the donation or free gift of the father, whereby he bestoweth the sinful man upon Christ, & Christ again upon the sinful man. Rom. 8.32. He spared not his own Son, but gave him for us. Isaiah. 6.9. Unto us a child is born, & unto us a son is given. Joh. 17.2. Thou hast given him power upon all flesh, that he should give eternal life to all them, whom thou hast given him. v. 6. I have declared thy name to the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they kept thy word. ver. 7. ⟨image 119⟩Now they know that all things, what so ever thou hast given me are of thee. Joh. 10.29. My father, which gave them me, is greater then all, and none is like to take them out of my fathers hands.
The second is, the donation or free gift of the father, whereby he bestoweth the sinfull man vpon Christ, & Christ againe vpon the sinfull man.