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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. 43. Of the third Assault.
The third Assault is, concerning Sanctification. The temptation, is a provoking to sin, according as the disposition of every man, and as occasion shall offer it self. 1. Chron. 21.1. And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. John 13.2. And when supper was done, the devil had now put in the hart of Judas Iscariot, Simons son, to betray him.
THe third Assault is, concerning Sanctification. The temptation, is a prouoking to sinne, according as the disposition of euery man, and as occasion shall offer it selfe. 1. Chron. 21.1. And Satan stoode vp against Israel, and prouoked Dauid to number Israel. Iohn 13.2. And when supper was done, the deuill had now put in the hart of Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne, to betray him.
In this temptation, the devil doth wonderfully diminish and make less those sins, which men are about to commit, partly by objecting the mercy of God, and partly by covering or hiding the punishment which is due for the sin.
In this temptation, the deuill doth wonderfully diminish and make lesse those sins, which men are about to commit, partly by obiecting the mercy of God, and partly by couering or hiding the punishment which is due for the sinne.