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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.
And by this it appeareth, that no voice can be named but with disliking:1 and hereupon in Scriptures when by occasion a vice should be named, in token of a loathing thereof, the name of the vice is omitted, and the name of the contrary virtue used in the room thereof, as in these words: For Job thought, It may be that my sons have sinned and blessed, that is, blasphemed God. 2This being true, then by proportion the visible representation of the vices of men in the world,3 which is the substance and matter whereof plays and interludes are made, is much more to be avoided.
And by this it appeareth, that no voice can bee named but with disliking:1 and hereupon in Scriptures when by occasion a vice should be named, in token of a loathing thereof, the name of the vice is omitted, and the name of the contrarie vertue vsed in the roome thereof, as in these wordes: For Iob thought, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned and blessed, that is, blasphemed God. 2This being true, then by proportion the visible representation of the vices of men in the world,3 which is the substance and matter whereof plaies and enterludes are made, is much more to be auoided.