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A GOLDEN CHAIN: The Description of Theology Containing the Order of the Causes of Salvation & Damnation, According to God's Word
WILLIAM PERKINS
THIS VOLUME IS A SMYTH-SEWN CLOTHBOUND BOOK
**SPECIAL BONUS - Inserted into the volume is a large color-copy of the famous Perkins' Chart which summarizes the book.
A GOLDEN CHAIN, or The Description of Theology Containing the Order of the Causes of Salvation & Damnation, According to God's Word
To the Christian Reader
Christian Reader, there are at this day four several opinions of the order of God's predestination. The first is of the old and new Pelagians; who place the cause of God's predestination in man; in that they hold that God did ordain men either to life or death, according as he did foresee, that they would by their natural freewill, either reject or receive grace offered. The second of them, who (of some) are termed Lutherans; which teach, that God foreseeing, how all mankind being shut up under unbelief, would therefore reject grace offered, did hereupon purpose to choose some to salvation of his mere mercy, without any respect of their faith or good works, and the rest to reject, being moved to do this, because he did eternally foresee that they would reject his grace offered them in the Gospel. The third, of Semipelagian Papists, which ascribe God's predestination, partly to mercy, and partly to men's foreseen preparations and meritorious works. The fourth, of such as teach, that the cause of the execution of God's predestination, is His mercy in Christ, in them which are saved; and in them which perish, the fall and corruption of man: yet so, as that the decree and eternal counsel of God, concerning them both, hath not any cause beside his will and pleasure. Of these four opinions, the three former I have labored to oppugn as erroneous, and to maintain the last, as being a truth, which will bear weight in the balance of the sanctuary.
A further discourse whereof, here I make bold to offer to thy godly consideration: in reading whereof, regard not so much the thing itself, penned very slenderly, as mine intent and affection: who desire among the rest, to cast my mite into the treasury of the Church of England, and for want of gold, pearl and precious stone, to bring a ram's skin or twain, and a little goats' hair to the building of the Lord's tabernacle, Exodus 35:23
The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ grant that according to the riches of His glory, thou mayest be strengthened by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in thy heart by faith; to the end that thou being rooted and grounded in love, mayest he able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth and length, and height thereof; and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that thou mayest he filled with all the fullness of God. Amen. Farewell, July 23rd, the year of the last patience of the saints, 1592.
Thine in Christ Jesus, William Perkins
Chapter 1 - Of the Body of Scripture
Chapter 2 - Of God and the Nature of God
Chapter 3 - Of the Life of God
Chapter 4 - Of God's Glory and Blessedness
Chapter 5 - Concerning the Persons of the Godhead
Chapter 6 - Of God's Works, and His Decrees
Chapter 7 - Of Predestination and Creation
Chapter 8 - Of Angels
Chapter 9 - Of Men and the Estate of Innocence
Chapter 10 - Of Sin, and of the Fall of Angels
Chapter 11 - Of Man's Fall and Disobedience
Chapter 12 - Of Original Sin
Chapter 13 - Of Actual Sin
Chapter 14 - Of the Common Punishment of Sin
Chapter 15 - Of Election, and Jesus Christ the Foundation Thereof
Chapter 16 - Of the Union of the Two Natures in Christ
Chapter 17 - Of the Distinction of Both Natures
Chapter 18 - Of Christ's Nativity and Office
Chapter 19 - Concerning the Outward Means of Executing the Decree of Election and the Decalogue
Chapter 20 - Of the First Commandment
Chapter 21 - Of the Second Commandment
Chapter 22 - Of the Third Commandment
Chapter 23 - Of the Fourth Commandment
Chapter 24 - Of the Fifth Commandment
Chapter 25 - Of the Sixth Commandment
Chapter 26 - Of the Seventh Commandment
Chapter 27 - Of the Eighth Commandment
Chapter 28 - Of the Ninth Commandment
Chapter 29 - Of the Tenth Commandment
Chapter 30 - Of the Use of the Law
Chapter 31 - Of the Covenant of Grace
Chapter 32 - Of the Sacraments
Chapter 33 - Of Baptism
Chapter 34 - Of the Lord's Supper
Chapter 35 - Of the Degree of Executing God's Decree of Election
Chapter 36 - Concerning the first Degree of the Declaration of God's Love
Chapter 37 - Concerning the second Degree of the Declaration of God's Love
Chapter 38 - Concerning the third Degree of the Declaration of God's Love
Chapter 39 - Of Repentance and the Fruits Thereof
Chapter 40 - Of Christian Warfare
Chapter 41 - Of the First Assault
Chapter 42 - Of the Second Assault
Chapter 43 - Of the Third Assault
Chapter 44 - Of the Patient Bearing of the Cross
Chapter 45 - Of the Calling Upon God
Chapter 46 - Of the Christian Apology and Martyrdom
Chapter 47 - Of Edification, and Alms Among the Faithful
Chapter 48 - Of the Fourth Degree of the Declaration of God's Love; and of the Estate of the Elect After This Life
Chapter 49 - Of the Elect at the Last Day of Judgment
Chapter 50 - Of the Estate of the Elect After Judgment
Chapter 51 - The Causes of Salvation and Damnation According to Rome's Doctrines
Chapter 52 - Concerning the Decree of Reprobation
Chapter 53 - Concerning the Execution of the Decree of Reprobation
Chapter 54 - Concerning a New Devised Doctrine of Predestination, Taught by Some New and late Divines
Chapter 55 - Of the State and Condition of the Reprobate When They Are Dead
Chapter 56 - Of the Condemnation of the Reprobate at the Last Judgment
Chapter 57 - Of the Estate of the Reprobate in Hell
Chapter 58 - Of the Application of Predestination
"Nearly one hundred Cambridge men who grew up in Perkins's shadow led early migrations to New England, including William Brewster of Plymouth, Thomas Hooker of Connecticut, John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay, and Roger Williams of Rhode Island. Richard Mather was converted while reading Perkins, and Jonathan Edwards was fond of reading Perkins more than a century later. Samuel Morison remarked that "your typical Plymouth Colony library comprised a large and a small bible, Ainsworth's translation of the Psalms, and the works of William Perkins, a favorite theologian" (The Intellectual Life of New England, 2nd ed., p. 134).
"Anyone who reads the writings of early New England learns that Perkins was indeed a towering figure in their eyes," wrote Perry Miller. Perkins and his followers were "the most quoted, most respected, and most influential of contemporary authors in the writings and sermons of early Massachusetts." (taken from Meet the Puritans)
"Contemporary scholars have called Perkins 'the principal architect of Elizabethan Puritanism,' 'the Puritan theologian of Tudor times,' 'the most important Puritan writer,' 'the prince of Puritan theologians,' 'the ideal Puritan clergyman of the quietist years,' 'the most famous of all Puritan divines,' and have classed him with Calvin and Beza as third in 'the trinity of the orthodox.' He was the first theologian to be more widely published in England than Calvin and the first English Protestant theologian to have a major impact in the British isles, on the continent, and in North America. Little wonder that Puritan scholars marvel that Perkins's rare works remain largely unavailable until now." - Dr. Joel Beeke
"William Perkins' 'A Golden Chain' is a very important work, not only in English theology but in Early Modern thought as well. Anyone interested in Puritanism must be familiar with its contents. For the benefit of the church, it will serve pastors and people alike. Some may be aware that in the last two decades, a theological break between John Calvin and English Puritanism has been advocated in some circles. William Perkins has been suggested as the chief party guilty of introducing ideas John Calvin did not hold into the stream of Puritanism, thus altering its course in a legalistic direction. This primary source evidence will provide a great deal of information demonstrating that this notion simply is not true. Perkins is full of Christ and the gospel. This is a great work, worthy of all accolades it has received. Take and read--you will be the better for doing so." - James M. Renihan, Ph.D., Dean, Professor of Historical Theology, Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies
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