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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.
1The usual time of mirth is at meats. And here Samsons practise may be ⟨p. 727⟩followed, who at his marriage feast propounded a riddle or hard question to his friends. And Ambrose thinketh that he did this to stop the mouths of talkers, and to occupy their wits.
1The vsuall time of mirth is at meates. And here Sampsons practise may be ⟨p. 727⟩followed, who at his marriage feast propounded a riddle or hard question to his friends. And Ambrose thinketh that hee did this to stoppe the mouthes of talkers, and to occupie their wits.
With all it must be remembered to be a Christian duty, even at the table to maintain talk of religion,1 and of duties of godliness, after the practise of our Saviour Christ: though many upon little ground think otherwise. Tertullian recordeth of the Christians of his time,2 that they used in their love-feasts to talk together, as considering with themselves that they had God himself as an ear-witness to them. Chrysostom of this point saith well.3 I would to God (saith he) that in taverns and feasts, and at bathes, men would talk and dispute of hell: for the remembering of hell would hinder a man from falling to hell. And it was the manner of the primitive Church at Dinner and supper to use the reading of the Scriptures.