A09353:895
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 means that work mortification, is the death and burial of Christ, from whence proceedeth such a virtue, as doth both keep under the strength that it cannot break out as it would, and in man as it were in a grave, doth cause it to dye & not putrefy. Rom. 6.6. Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed.
The means that work mortification, is the death and buriall of Christ, from whence proceedeth such a vertue, as doth both keep vnder the strength that it cānot break out as it would, and in man as it were in a graue, doth cause it to dye & not putrifie. Rom. 6.6. Our olde man is crucified with him, that the body of sinne might be destroyed.
Vivification is the second part of sanctification: whereby inherent holiness being begun, is still augmented and enlarged. First, we receive the first fruits of the spirit, then a continual increase of them. Ephe. 4.23. Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. v. 24. And put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness, and true holiness. Eph. 2.1. And you that he quickened, that were dead in trespasses and sins. Gal. 2.20. Thus J live, yet not I now, but Christ in me: and in that I now live by the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who hath loved me, and given himself for me. Rom. 8.23. We which have the first fruits of the spirit, even we do sigh in our selves, waiting for the adoption, even the redemption of our bodies. 1. Cor. 15.45. The first man Adam was made a living soul, and the second man Adam was made a quickened spirit.