A09353:863
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 hope of pardon, whereby a sinner, albeit he yet feeleth not that his sins are certainly pardoned, yet he believeth that they are pardon ble. Luk. 15.18. I will go unto my father, and say, father, I have sinned against heaven, and against thee, and a• […] more worthy to be called thy Son, make me as one of thine hi•ed servants.
The second, is hope of pardon, wherby a sinner, albeit he yet feeleth not that his sinnes are certainly pardoned, yet he beleeueth that they are pardo• ble. Luk. 15.18. I wil goe vnto my father, and say, father, I haue sinned against heauen, and against thee, and a• 〈…〉 more worthie to be called thy Sonne, make me as one of thine hi•ed seruants.
The third, is an hungering and thirsting after that grace, which is offered to him in Christ Jesus, as a man hungereth and thirsteth after meat and drink. John. 6.35. and 7 37. Revel. 21.6. And he said unto me, It is done, I am oe and […], the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is a thirst, of the well of the water of life freely. Mat. 5.6. Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
The third, is an hungring and thirsting after that grace, which is offered to him in Christ Iesus, as a man hungreth and thirsteth after meate and drink.