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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.
II. They are fellow heirs with Christ, yea kings. Rom. 8.17. Revel. 1.6. And made us Kings & Priests, even to God his Father.
II. They are fellow heires with Christ, yea kings. Rom. 8.17. Reuel. 1.6. And made vs Kings & Priests, euen to God his Father.
III. All their afflictions, yea even their wants, and offences, are turned to fatherly chastisements, inflicted upon them for their good. Rom. 8.28. We know that all things work together for the best, unto them that love God. ver. 36. It is written, for thy sake are we killed all the day long we are counted as Sheep for the slaughter. ver. 37. Nevertheless, in all these things, we are more then conquerors through him that loved us. Psal. 89.32. I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes. v. 33. Yet my loving kindness will I not take from him. 2. Cor. 12.7. There was given unto me a prick in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure. 2. Sam. 7.14. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he sin, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the plagues of the children of men.
III. All their afflictions, yea euen their wantes, and offences, are turned to fatherly chastisementes, inflicted vpon them for their good.