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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.
Chap. 41. Of the first assault.
Assaults are threefold.
ASsaultes are threefold.
The first is, about the Christian mans effectual calling. The temptation is, the enterprise of the devil to make blind mans mind, and to harden his heart, least the word of God should work in him to salvation. Matth. 13.4. And as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up. verse 5. And some fell upon stan• ground, where they had not much earth, and a•o• they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. verse 6. And when the sun rose up, they were parched, and for lack of rooting withered away. verse 7. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked them. ver. 19. Whensoever a man beareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, the evil one cometh, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: and this is he which hath received the seed by the way side.
The first is, about the Christian mans effectuall calling. The temptation is, the enterprise of the deuill to make blinde mans minde, and to harden his heart, least the word of God should worke in him to saluation. Matth. 13.4. And as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the foules came and deuoured them vp. verse 5. And some fell vpon stan• ground, where they had not much earth, and a•o they sprange vp, because they had no depth of earth. verse 6. And when the sunne rose vp, they were parched, and for lacke of rooting withered away. verse 7. And some fell among thornes, and the thornes sprung vp and choked them. ver. 19. Whensoeuer a man beareth the word of the kingdome, and vnderstandeth it not, the euill one commeth, and catcheth away that which was sowen in his heart: and this is he which hath receiued the seede by the way side.