A09353:897
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 efficient cause of vivification is the holy Ghost, who doth by his divine power convey himself ⟨image 126⟩into the believers harts, and in them createth holiness. Job. 33.24, 25. Then will he have mercy upon him, and will say, deliver him, that he go not down into the pit: for I have received a reconciliation. Then shall his flesh be as fresh as a child's, and shall return as in the days of his youth. Rom. 8.9. Now ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, because the spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any man have not the spirit of Christ, the same is not his. ver. 11. But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, be that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because that his spirit dwelleth in you.
The efficient cause of viuification is the holye Ghost, who doth by his diuine power conuey himselfe ⟨image 126⟩into the beleeuers harts, and in them createth holines. Iob. 33.24, 25. Then will he haue mercy vpon him, and will say, deliuer him, that he goe not downe into the pit: for I haue receiued a reconciliation. Then shal his flesh be as fresh as a childes, and shal return as in the daies of his youth. Rom. 8.9. Now ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, because the spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any man haue not the spirite of Christ, the same is not his. ver. 11. But if the spirit of him that raised vp Iesus from the dead dwell in you, be that raised vp Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortall bodies, because that his spirite dwelleth in you.
The preservative of vivification, is a virtue derived from Christs resurrection, to those that are quickened, which maketh them to rise up to newness of life.