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A Golden Chain

by William Perkins

Perkins unfolds the order of salvation and damnation through the lens of Reformed theology, tracing the golden chain of Romans 8—foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, glorification—against Pelagian and semi-Pelagian errors. Bound with Beza's counsel for consciences troubled by predestination, an exposition of the Creed, a catechetical Lord's Prayer exposition, and propositions distinguishing true grace from counterfeit, this volume forms a comprehensive guide to the doctrines of grace. Perkins engages Lutheran, Papist, and Arminian objections with pastoral precision and doctrinal clarity.
Chapters
88
Word count
256,545
Type
Treatise
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Table of contents

  1. 01 Title Page 59 words
  2. 02 To the Christian Reader 432 words
  3. 03 An Excellent Treatise of Comforting Such as Are Troubled about Their Predestination, Taken out of the Second Answer of Master Beza, to Doctor Andreas, in the Act of Their Colloquy at Mompelgart, etc. 2,927 words
  4. 04 To the Right Honorable, Edward Lord Russell, Earl of Bedford: Grace and Peace, etc. 964 words
  5. 05 Note 43 words
  6. 06 An Exposition of the Creed: I Believe in God, etc. 150,676 words
  7. 07 An Exposition of the Creed: I Believe in God, etc. 70,739 words
  8. 08 To the Right Honorable Edward, Lord Russell, Earl of Bedford: Grace and Peace Be Multiplied 338 words
  9. 09 An Advertisement to the Reader 365 words
  10. 10 An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer, in the Way of Catechism, Serving for Ignorant People, by Master Perkins. Matthew 6:9: After This Manner Therefore Pray: Our Father, etc. 3,140 words
  11. 11 Our Father Which Art, etc. 532 words
  12. 12 1. The Meaning 527 words
  13. 13 2. The Use 1,695 words
  14. 14 1. The Meaning 197 words
  15. 15 2. The Uses 1,039 words
  16. 16 1. The Meaning 137 words
  17. 17 2. The Use 922 words
  18. 18 1. The Coherence 530 words
  19. 19 2. The Meaning 74 words
  20. 20 Name 82 words
  21. 21 Hallowed 281 words
  22. 22 3. The Wants Which Are to Be Bewailed 623 words
  23. 23 4. Graces to Be Desired 343 words
  24. 24 1. The Coherence 58 words
  25. 25 2. The Meaning 848 words
  26. 26 3. The Wants Which Are to Be Bewailed 602 words
  27. 27 4. Graces to Be Desired 652 words
  28. 28 1. The Coherence 68 words
  29. 29 2. The Meaning 199 words
  30. 30 3. The Wants to Be Prayed Against 355 words
  31. 31 4. Graces to Be Desired 265 words
  32. 32 5. Error Confuted 75 words
  33. 33 1. The Meaning 278 words
  34. 34 2. The Wants to Be Bewailed 229 words
  35. 35 3. Grace to Be Desired 123 words
  36. 36 1. The Coherence 148 words
  37. 37 2. The Meaning 1,717 words
  38. 38 3. The Wants Which Are to Be Bewailed 282 words
  39. 39 4. Graces to Be Desired 144 words
  40. 40 5. Errors Confuted 129 words
  41. 41 1. The Coherence 353 words
  42. 42 2. The Meaning 134 words
  43. 43 3. The Uses of the Words 420 words
  44. 44 4. Wants to Be Bewailed 137 words
  45. 45 5. Graces to Be Desired 143 words
  46. 46 1. The Coherence 141 words
  47. 47 2. The Meaning 498 words
  48. 48 3. The Use 439 words
  49. 49 1. The Coherence 427 words
  50. 50 2. The Meaning 874 words
  51. 51 3. The Uses 169 words
  52. 52 4. Wants to Be Bewailed 96 words
  53. 53 5. Graces to Be Desired 41 words
  54. 54 For Yours Is the Kingdom, the Power and Glory, Forever 10 words
  55. 55 1. The Meaning 623 words
  56. 56 2. The Uses 544 words
  57. 57 1. The Meaning 282 words
  58. 58 2. Graces to Be Desired 201 words
  59. 59 Of the Use of the Lord's Prayer 494 words
  60. 60 Of the Circumstances of Prayer 960 words
  61. 61 Of God's Hearing Our Prayers 399 words
  62. 62 To the Reader 159 words
  63. 63 The Exposition 613 words
  64. 64 Ephesians 3 151 words
  65. 65 The Exposition 842 words
  66. 66 Philippians 1 60 words
  67. 67 The Exposition 251 words
  68. 68 Colossians 1 116 words
  69. 69 The Exposition 276 words
  70. 70 1 Thessalonians 3 51 words
  71. 71 2 Thessalonians 2 39 words
  72. 72 1 Thessalonians 5 34 words
  73. 73 A Song Gathered out of the Psalms, Containing the Sobs and Sighs of All Repentant Sinners 687 words
  74. 74 To the Right Worshipful and My Christian Friend Master Valentine Knightly, Esquire, One of Her Majesty's Justices of Peace in Northamptonshire 272 words
  75. 75 To the Christian Reader 1,273 words
  76. 76 1 52 words
  77. 77 2 76 words
  78. 78 3 93 words
  79. 79 4 67 words
  80. 80 5 105 words
  81. 81 6 47 words
  82. 82 7 39 words
  83. 83 8 170 words
  84. 84 9 35 words
  85. 85 10 176 words
  86. 86 11 233 words
  87. 87 12 107 words
  88. 88 13 299 words

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