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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.
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.
2. To discerne of spirits. 1. Ioh. 4.1. Derely beloued beleeue not euery spirite, but trie the spirites whether they are of God. 1. Thes. 5.21. Trie all things, and keepe that which is good. Acts. 17.11. These were more noble men, then they which were at Thessalonica, which receiued the word with all readines, and searched the Scriptures dayly, whether these things were so.
3. To meditate upon the word and works of God. Psal. 1.2. But his delight is in the law of God, and in that Law doth exercise himself day and night. Psal. 119.15. J will meditate in thy precepts, and consider thy ways. Psal. 107. the whole Psalm.