A09353:862
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 knowledge, if it be more full and perfect, ⟨image 121⟩is called in Greek [Greek or Hebrew] that is, the full assurance of understanding. Col. 2.2. Th•• their harts might be comforted, and they knit together in love, and in all riches, of the full assurance of understanding, to know the mystery of God, even the Father, and of Christ. Rom. 14.14. J know and am persuaded through the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of it self. Luke. 1.1. For as much as many have taken in hand to set forth the story of those things, whereof we are fully persuaded. 1. Thes. 1.5. Our Gospel was unto you, not in word only, but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, and in much assurance.
This knowledge, if it be more full and perfect, ⟨image 121⟩is called in Greeke 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 that is, the full assurance of vnderstanding. Col. 2.2. Th•• their harts might be comforted, and they knit togither in loue, and in all riches, of the full assurance of vnderstanding, to know the mystery of God, euen the Father, and of Christ. Rom. 14.14. J know and am perswaded through the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing vncleane of it selfe. Luke. 1.1. For as much as many haue taken in hand to set forth the story of those things, whereof we are fully perswaded. 1. Thes. 1.5. Our Gospell was vnto you, not in word only, but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, and in much assurance.