A09353:868
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 fifth arising of the former, is an especial persuasion imprinted in the hart by the holy Ghost, whereby every faithful man doth particularly apply unto himself, those promises which are made in the Gospel. Mat. 9.2. They brought unto him a man sick of the palsy: and when Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good comfort, thy sins are forgiven thee. Mat. 15.28. O woman, great is thy faith, be is unto thee, as thou desirest.
The fift arising of the former, is an especiall perswasion imprinted in the hart by the holye Ghost, wherby euery faithfull man doth particularlye apply vnto himselfe, those promises which are made in the Gospel. Mat. 9.2. They brought vnto him a man sick of the palsie: and when Jesus saw their faith, he saide vnto the sicke of the palsie, Sonne, be of good comfort, thy sinnes are forgiuen thee. Mat. 15.28. O woman, great is thy faith, be is vnto thee, as thou desirest.
This persuasion, is, and ought to be in every one, even before he have any experience of Gods mercies. ⟨image 122⟩Mat. 15.23. A Woman, a Canaanite, came out of the same coasts, and cried, saying unto him have mercy on me, O Lord the Son of David: my daughter is miserably vexed with a devil, &c. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. Joh. 20.29. Jesus said unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou believest: blessed are they which have not seen, and have believed. Heb. 11.1