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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 when children salute their fathers and mothers after this manner: I pray you father bless me. I pray you mother bless me: it is a seemly thing. For God hath made parents to be the instruments of blessing to their children, in nurturing them and praying for them: as the fifth commandment saith, Honour thy father and thy mother, that they may prolong thy days. Now they prolong the children's days by praying to God for blessings on them, and by such like duties.
And when children salute their fathers and mothers after this manner: I pray you father blesse me. I pray you mother blesse me: it is a seemely thing. For God hath made parents to be the instruments of blessing to their children, in nurturing them and praying for them: as the fifth commandement saith, Honour thy father and thy mother, that they may prolong thy daies. Now they prolong the childrens daies by praying to God for blessings on them, and by such like duties.
It is an use in all places, when a man neeseth to salute him by saying, Christ help you: But there is no cause why the words should then be used more then at another time. The reasons are, I. it is an old custom fetched from the Gentiles before Christ, and hath no ground at all: for they used with the like words to wish men health,1 because they thought neezing to be a sacred and holy thing: and because some take it to be a sign of unhappy and evil success, which indeed is otherwise. II. If there be any danger in the brain before neezing, when a man hath neesed the danger is past, as learned physicians teach: therefore there is no cause of the using such words then, more then at coughing.
It is an vse in all places, when a man neeseth to salute him by saying, Christ helpe you: But there is no cause why the words should then be vsed more then at another time. The reasons are, I. it is an olde custome fetched from the Gentiles before Christ, and hath no ground at all: for they vsed with the like wordes to wish men health,1