A09353:904
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.
These two, have these effects which follow.
These two, haue these effects which follow.
1. To discern between good and evil. Heb. 5.14. Strong meat belongeth to them that are of age, which through long custom have their wits exercised, to discern both good and evil. Phil. 1.10. That ye may discern things that differ one from another.
1. To discerne betweene good and euill. Heb. 5.14. Strong meat belongeth to them that are of age, which through long custome haue their wits exercised, to discearne both good and euill. Phil. 1.10. That ye may discearne things that differ one from another.
2. To discern of spirits. 1. Joh. 4.1. Dearly beloved believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God. 1. Thes. 5.21. Try all things, and keep that which is good. Acts. 17.11. These were more noble men, then they which were at Thessalonica, which received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.