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. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09339.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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IX.
The meanes to attaine to the sight of sinne, is by a diligent examination of a mans own selfe: This was the practise of the children of Israel in affliction; i 1.1Let vs trie (say they) and search our waies, and turne againe to the Lord. And Dauid giueth the same counsell to Sauls Courtiers: k 1.2Tremble and sin not, exa∣mine your own heart on your bed, & be still. This examination must be made by the commandements of the Law, but specially by the tenth, which ransacketh the heart to the very quick: & was the meanes of Pauls conuersion. For he be∣ing
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a proud pharisie,l 1.3 this commandement shewed him some ••innes, which o∣therwise he had not knowne, and it killed him, that is, it humbled him. If so bee it, that after examination a man cannot find out his sinnes (as no man shal find out all his sinnes, for m 1.4 the heart of man is a vast gulfe of sinne, without either bottom or bank, and hath infinit & hidden corruptions in it) then hee must in a godly iealousie, suspect himselfe of his vnknowne sinnes: as Dauid did, say∣ing, n 1.5Who can vnderstand his faults? clense me from my secret faults. And as Paul did,o 1.6I know nothing by my selfe, yet I am not thereby iustified. And good reason it is why men should suspect themselues of those sinnes which as yet they neuer sawe in themselues, p 1.7For that which is highly esteemed amongst men, is a∣bomination in the sight of God: and the very q 1.8Angels are not cleane in his sight.