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The body of Scripture is a doctrine sufficient to live well. It comprehends many holy sciences of which one is principal, and the others are handmaids or attendants.https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/perkins/A%20Golden%20Chain%20-%20William%20Perkins.pdf
Let prayer be the key to open the morning and the bar to shut the evening.
God's manner of creating, and also of governing, is such that by his word alone he produced all sorts of things without any instruments, means, assistance, or motion.https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/perkins/A%20Golden%20Chain%20-%20William%20Perkins.pdf
The same decree of God, is the first and principal working cause of all things; it is also before all other causes, in order and time. For with God's decree, his will is always annexed, by which he can willingly effect what he has decreed. And it would be a sign of impotence to decree anything which he could not willingly compass. And with God's will is conjoined an effectual power, by which the Lord can bring to pass whatever he has freely decreed.
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God's foreknowledge in itself is not a cause why things are, except as it is conjoined with his decree. For things do not therefore come to pass because God foreknew them; but because He decreed and willed them, therefore they come to pass.
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the Lord, according to his good pleasure, has most certainly
decreed both every thing and action — whether past, present, or to come — together with their circumstances of place, time, means, and end.
The Divine Nature is especially in perpetual operation by three attributes
which manifest the operation of God towards his creatures. These are his
WISDOM, WILL, and OMNIPOTENCE
The principal science is Theology. Theology is the science of living blessedly forever. Blessed life consists in the knowledge of God.https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/perkins/A%20Golden%20Chain%20-%20William%20Perkins.pdf
The sum of the sum, preach one Christ by Christ to the praise of Christ.
The word of God must be our rule and square whereby we are to frame and fashion all our actions
[theology:] the science of living blessedly forever
The Word of God alone is to be preached, in it's perfection and inner consistency.The Art of Prophesying
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