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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.
A resistance in those that are called, is wrought by the the spirit of God, that causeth men to lend their ears to hear, and doth engraft the word in their hearts, that the immortal seed of regeneration may spring in them. Psalm 4.6. John. 6.44. Acts. 16.14. Jam. 1.21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, and superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls. 1. Pet. 1.22. Seeing your souls are purified in obeying the truth through the ⟨image 132⟩spirit, to love brotherly without feigning, love one another with a pure heart fervently. 1. John. 3.9. Whosoever is borne of God sinneth not: for his seed remaineth in him, neither can he sin, because he is borne of God. A resistance in those that are to be called, is when in a sincere heart they do join the word which they have heard, with faith. Luk. 8.15. But that which fell in good ground, are they which with an honest and good heart hear the word and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. Heb. 4.2.
A resistance in those that are called, is wrought by the the spirite of God, that causeth men to lend their eares to heare, and doth ingraffe the worde in their heartes, that the immortall seede of regeneration may spring in them. Psalme 4.6. Iohn. 6.44. Acts. 16.14.