A09353:922
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
Chapter 39: Of Repentance and the fruits thereof.Chapter 39: Of Repentance and the fruites thereof.
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.
Chap. 39. Of Repentance and the fruits thereof.
Chap. 39. Of Repentance and the fruites thereof.
From sanctification Repentance is derived; […] no man can repent, before he have begun to hate sin.
FRom sanctification Repentance is deriued; 〈…〉 no man can repent, before he haue begunne to hate sinne.
Repentance is, when a sinner turneth unto the Lord. Act. 26.20. He showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and through all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, & to do works worthy amendment of life. 1. John. 3.3. Every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, as he is pare.
Repentance is, when a sinner turneth vnto the Lord. Act. 26.20. He shewed first vnto them of Damascus, and at Ierusalem, and through all the coastes of Iudea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turne to God, & to doe workes worthy amendment of life.