A09353:869
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 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. Faith is the ground of things hoped for, and the evidence of things which are not seen. In philosophy, we first see a thing true by experience, and afterward give our assent unto it: as in Natural philosophy, I am persuaded that such a water is hot, because, when I put mine hand into it. I perceive, by experience, an hot quality.
This perswasion, is, and ought to be in euery one, euen before he haue any experience of Gods mercies. ⟨image 122⟩Mat. 15.23. A Woman, a Cananite, came out of the same coastes, and cryed, saying vnto him haue mercye on me, O Lord the Sonne of Dauid: my daughter is miserably vexed with a diuell, &c. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. Ioh. 20.29. Iesus said vnto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou beleeuest: blessed are they which haue not seene, and haue beleeued. Heb. 11.1. Faith is the ground of things hoped for, and the euidence of things which are not seene. In philosophie, we first see a thing true by experience, and afterward giue our assent vnto it: as in Naturall philosophie, I am perswaded that such a water is hot, because, when I put mine hand into it. I perceiue, by experience, an hot qualitie.