A golden chaine: or The description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seene in the table annexed. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting afflicted consciences.

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Title: A golden chaine: or The description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seene in the table annexed. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting afflicted consciences.
Author: Perkins, William, 1558-1602.
Publication: [Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge,; 1600.
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Subject terms: Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.; Salvation -- Early works to 1800.; Predestination -- Early works to 1800.
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1. The meaning.

HAuing shewed the meaning of this petition, Thy will be done: nowe we are to speake of the condition, which shewes in what manner we should doe it. For the question might be howe we would doe Gods will: and the answer is, that his will must be done in earth as it is in heauen.

Heauen] By heauen here is meant the soules of faithfull men departed, and the elect Angels, Psal. 103.20. Praise the Lord ye his angels, that excel in strēgth, that doe his commandements in obeying the voice of his word.

Earth] By earth is vnderstood nothing but men on earth, because all other creatures in their kind obey God: onely man he is rebellious and disobedient. Then the meaning is, Let thy will be done by vs men on earth, as the Angels and Saints departed doe thy will in heauen.

Question. Doe wee here desire to doe the will of God in that perfection it is done by Angels? must we be as perfect as they? Ans. The words here vsed in earth as it, &c. doe not signifie an equalitie (as though our obedience could in this life bee in the same degree of perfection with Angels) but a similitude standing in the like manner of obedience. Now it may be asked in what man∣ner do the angels obey God? Ans. They do the will of God willingly, speedi∣ly, and faithfully: and this is signified in that they are said in the scriptures to be winged, and to stand continually beholding the face of our heauenly father. And this is the manner in which wee desire to performe Gods will.