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A Golden Chain
A golden chain: or The description of theology containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seen in the table annexed. Hereunto is adjoined the order which M. Theodore Beza used in comforting afflicted consciences.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.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1600Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1600
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. 2. What gesture is to be used in prayer? Ans. The word doeth not afford any particular direction. Our Saviour and his disciples prayed in divers gestures: kneeling, standing, grovelling, looking to heaven, looking down to the earth, sitting, lying, &c. Luk. 11.41. Act. 7. god respects not the gesture, but the affection of the heart: yet two things must always be in gesture: first, that it be comely: secondly, that it do fitly express the affection of the heart: as when we ask mercy, to look to heaven: when we bewail our sins to look downward, and to humble our bodies &c.
Quest. 2. What gesture is to be vsed in praier? Ans. The worde doeth not affoard any particular direction. Our Sauiour and his disciples praied in diuers gestures: kneeling, stāding, groueling, looking to heauen, looking down to the earth, sitting, lying, &c. Luk. 11.41. Act. 7. god respects not the gesture, but the affection of the heart: yet two things must alwaies be in gesture: first, that it bee comely: secondly, that it doe fitly expresse the affection of the heart: as when we aske mercie, to look to heauen: when we bewaile our sinnes to looke downward, and to humble our bodies &c.
Question. 3. What place must we pray in? Ans. The place is set down, 1. Tim. 2.8. We may pray in all places: of which there is no difference. Some will say, that in the time of the law, the tabernacle and temple were places of divine prayer. Ans. The temple and tabernacle were types of Christ and his Church, and the unity of it: but now, we having the thing it self signified thereby, may pray in all places. Our Saviour prayed in the wilderness, on the Mount, Peter on the house top, Paul by the sea shore: yet so, that public prayer must be used in public places, as Churches, Chapels, &c. not because in them is more holiness, but for order sake.