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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.
God executeth this effectual calling by certain means.
God executeth this effectuall calling by certain meanes.
The first, is the saving hearing of the word of God, a which is, when the said word outwardly is preached, to such an one as is both dead in his sins, and doth not so much as dream of his salvation. b And 1. of all, the Law, showing a man his sin, and the punishment thereof, which is eternal death: afterward the Gospel, showing salvation by Christ Jesus, to such as believe. c And inwardly the eyes of the mind are enlightened, d the hart & ears opened, that he may see, hear, and understand the preaching of the word of God. a Ezech. 16.6. When I passed by thee, I saw thee polluted in thine own blood, and I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, thou shalt line. Isaiah 55.1. Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and ye that have no silver, come buy and and eat: come, I say, and buy wine and milk without silver, and without money. John. 1.12. As many as received him, to them he gave this privilege, that they should become the Sons of God: namely, to them which believed in his name. b Rom. 7.7. I knew not sin, but by the ⟨image 120⟩Law, for J had not known lust, except the Law had said, thou shalt not lust. c 1. Joh. 2.27. But the anointing, which ye received of him, dwelleth in you: and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things, and it is true, and is not lying, and, as it taught you, ye shall abide in him. d Act. 16.14. A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the City of the Thyatirians, a worshipper of God, heard us, whose hart God opened, that she attended to the things, that Paul spake.