A09353:849
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 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. Rom. 8.32. He spared not his owne sonne, but gaue him for vs. Esay. 6.9. Vnto vs a child is born, & vnto vs a sonne is giuen. Ioh. 17.2. Thou hast giuen him power vpon all flesh, that he should giue eternal life to al them, whō thou hast giuen him. v. 6. I haue declared thy name to the mē which thou gauest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gauest them me, and they kept thy word. ver. 7. ⟨image 119⟩Now they know that all thinges, what so euer thou hast geuen me are of thee. Ioh. 10.29. My father, which gaue them me, is greater then all, and none is like to take them out of my fathers handes.