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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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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Perkins, William, 1558-1602.
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[Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge,
1600.
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Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
Salvation -- Early works to 1800.
Predestination -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online Collections. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09339.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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LVII.
The fift temptation is a fall into some great sinne,5 1.1 as Noah into drunken∣nes, Dauid into Adulterie, and murder, Peter into the deniall of Christ. The exercise of a Christian in this temptation is this:
1 At the first his heart is vsually dulled and made secure with sinne.
2 Yet after a while there by some meanes ariseth in his heart a godly sor∣rowe: which is when he is g••ieued for this onely cause, that by his sinne hee hath displeased. God, who hath beene to him so louing and mercifull a father,
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whose fauour he would be content to purchase, (so he might haue it and ob∣taine it) euen with the damnation of his owne soule.
3 n 1.2Then he beginnes to repent himselfe of his sinnes, renuing afresh his former repentance.
4 This repentance he sheweth by seuen signes.
1 A care to leaue that sinne into which he is fallen. As they which crucifi∣ed our Sauiour Christ, whē they were pricked in their hearts at Peters sermon, they shewed this care in saying, o 1.3Men and br••thren, what shall we doe to be sa∣ued?
2. An Apologie, which is when a man in the heauines of his heart, shal not excuse or defend his sinne, but confesse it to the Lord, and vtterly condemne himselfe for it: acknowledging withall that there is no way to escape the wrath of God, but by hauing Gods free pardon in Christ.
3 Indignation which is an inward anger and fretting against his ownselfe, because he was so carelesse in looking to his owne waies. Peter when he had denied his master, he wept and that bitterly, which sheweth that with sorrow, he had also an anger against himselfe.
4 p 1.4 A feare rising not so much from the iudgements of God, as from this, least he should hereafter fall into the same sinne againe, and by so doing more grieuously displease God.
5 A desire euer after more carefully to please God.
6 Zeale in the seruice of God.
7 Reuenge vpon himselfe for his former offences: for example, if a man sinne in surfetting and drunkennes, if he euer repent, he will bring vnder his corrupt nature by sparing and moderating himselfe.