A Golden Chain

Author William Perkins ISBN 9780648725053 Pages 399 Written by William Perkins (1558-1602), A Golden Chain is one of the best treatments of the doctrines of election and reprobation ever written. Due to is controversial nature, it is one of the few significant and influential works written by a Puritan which has not been widely republished as a standalone version. In this version of A Golden Chain, transcribed from the 1597 edition of Perkins' work, it has been lightly abridged and modernised with simplified language and new structural diagrams. Also included is a brief introduction to both Perkins' life and work written by Perkins scholar, Matthew Payne. "Few books may truly be called seminal in the primary sense of that term, but William Perkins' A Golden Chain certainly deserves that adjective. Reflecting the best thinking of the 16th century English reformation, it is an abundant deposit of the most valuable theology mined from holy scripture. It does not simply contain the occas