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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.
The fourth commandment is repealed in that they require that their feast days should be kept as solemnly as the Lords sabbath: For they must be kept in all honour and comeliness: 1and men must rest from their labours, from morning to evening, as on the Sabbath: whereas contrariwise the Lord hath given permission to his servants to labour the six days, so be it, on the seventh they will rest from the works of their callings, and do the works of the spirit.
The fourth commandement is repealed in that they require that their feast daies should be kept as solemnly as the Lords sabboth: For they must be kept in all honour and comlines: 1and men must rest from their labours, from morning to euening, as on the Sabboth: whereas contrariwise the Lord hath giuen permission to his seruantes to labour the sixe daies, so bee it, on the seuenth they will rest from the workes of their callings, and do the works of the spirit.
- 1Con. M• gunt. c. 36. 37. Matiscon. 2. c. 1.2.
They repeal the fifth commandment in that they teach that their Clergy hath an immunity, & therefore is not bound to perform obedience to magistrates, for so they have decreed,1 that Clerks are to be judged only of Bishops: & that they are only to rescue them from injuries. Again, that the Bishop must not be judged of the secular power: and that the Pope himself oweth no subjection to Kings, Princes, Emperors, but hath power to make them, and to put them down at his pleasure. But S. Paul for the maintaining of the fifth commandment, bids every soul be subject to the higher powers: and therefore the pope with his clergy (as Chrysostom hath expounded it) must be subject to civil magistrates, unless they will exclude themselves out of the number of men, for Paul speaks to all.