A09353:851
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.
This, albeit it be a most near, and real union, yet we must not think, that it, by touching, • ture, or as it were, by soldering of one soul with another, neither by a bare agreement of the souls among themselves but by the communion, & operation of the same spirit, which being by nature • nite, is of sufficient ability to conjoin those things ⟨image 119⟩together, which are of themselves far distant from each other: the like, we see in the soul of man, which conjoineth the head with the foot. Ephes. 2.22. 2. Pet. 1.4. Whereby most great and precious promises are given unto us, that by them ye should be partakers of the godly nature, in that ye flee the corruption which is in the world through lust. Phil. 2.1. If there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the spirit, &c.
This, albeit it be a most neere, and reall vnion, yet we must not thinke, that it, by touching, • ture, or as it were, by souldering of one soule with another, neither by a bare agreement of the soules among themselues but by the cōmunion, & operation of the same spirite, which being by nature • nite, is of sufficient ability to conioyne those things ⟨image 119⟩together, which are of themselues far distant from ech other: the like, we see in the soule of man, which cōioyneth the head with the foote. Ephes. 2.22. 2. Pet. 1.4. Whereby most great and precious promises are giuen vnto vs, that by them ye should be partakers of the godly nature, in that ye flee the corruption which is in the worlde through lust.