A09353:996
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.
I. To account no sin, light or small. Gal. 5.9. A little leaven doth leaven the whole lump. Rom. 6.23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I. To account no sinne, light or small. Gal. 5.9. A little leauen doth leauen the whole lumpe. Rom. 6.23. For the wages of sinne is death, but the gift of God is eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.
II. To avoid all occasions of sin. To these ⟨image 136⟩rather agreeth the proverb used of the plague. Long, tarde, citò: that is, Aloof, slowly, quickly. 1. Thess. 5.22. Abstain from all appearance of evil. Jude. vers. 23. And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, and hate even the garment spotted by the flesh.
II. To auoide all occasions of sinne. To these ⟨image 136⟩rather agreeth the prouerb vsed of the plague. Longe, tarde, citò: that is, Aloofe, slowly, quickely. 1. Thess. 5.22. Absteine from all appearance of euill. Iude. vers. 23