A09353:972
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.
II. The remembrance of sins past. Job. 13.26. For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
II. The remembrance of sins past. Iob. 13.26. For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
III. A feeling of death even already at hand.
III. A feeling of death euen alreadie at hand.
The resistance is made by a true faith, applying Christ with all his merits particularly, after this manner. I assuredly believe that I shall not be condemned, & that I am elected, & justified in Christ. Esa. 53.11. He shall see the travail of his soul, & shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. Rom. 8.38. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The resistance is made by a true faith, applying Christ with all his merites particularly, after this maner. I assuredly beleeue that I shall not be condemned, & that I am elected, & iustified in Christ.