A09353:900
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.
I. The holiness of the mind, which is the illumination thereof, to the knowledge of the will of God. Coloss. 1.9. We cease not to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be fully filled with knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 1. Cor. 12.8. To one is given by the spirit, the speech of wisdom, to another the speech of knowledge, by the same spirit.
I. The holynes of the minde, which is the illumination thereof, to the knowledge of the will of God. Coloss. 1.9. We cease not to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be fullye filled with knowledge of his will, in all wisedome and spirituall vnderstanding, 1. Cor. 12.8. To one is giuen by the spirite, the speach of wisdome, to another the speach of knowledge, by the same spirite.
Illumination, is either spiritual understanding, or spiritual wisdom.
Illumination, is either spirituall vnderstanding, or spirituall wisedome.
Spiritual understanding, is an illumination of the mind, whereby it acknowledgeth the known truth of the word of God.
Spirituall vnderstanding, is an illumination of the minde, wherby it acknowledgeth the knowen truth of the word of God.