A09353:915
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.
This hope, when it is once strong and lively, hath also her [Greek or Hebrew], that is, full assurance, as faith hath. Coloss. 1.23. If ye continue grounded and stablished in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, whereof ye have heard, &c. 1. Pet. 1.3. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
This hope, when it is once strong and liuely, hath also her 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that is, full assurance, as faith hath. Coloss. 1.23. If ye continue grounded and stablished in the faith, and be not mooued away from the hope of the Gospell, whereof ye haue heard, &c. 1. Pet. 1.3. Blessed be God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercie, hath begotten vs againe vnto a liuely hope, by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead.