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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.
CHAP. X. Of writing.
ALL this which is set down concerning speech, must as well be practised in writing as in speaking. Whereby are condemned ballads, books of love, all idle discourses and histories, being nothing else but enticements and baits unto manifold sins, fitter for Sodom and Gomorrah, then for Gods Church. And it must be followed as well in speaking of latin or any other tongue, as English, which students have not marked; for whereas they will not swear in English, yet in Latin they make no bones of it, saying, Mehercuse, mediùs, fidiùs, aedipol, per deos immortals. And whereas they hold but one God in judgement, yet in their Latin exercises they speak of Jupiter and of the immortal Gods • after the manner of the heathen. What a shame is this, that a Christian, and that in Christian schools, should either be ashamed or not use to speak as a Christian, but as Atheists do? If thou have many tongues and knowest not how to use them well: he which hath but his mother tongue, ordering it aright, is a better linguist then thou.
ALL this which is set downe concerning speech, must as wel be practised in writing as in speaking. Whereby are condemned ballads, bookes of loue, all idle discourses and histories, beeing nothing els but enticements and baites vnto manifold sinnes, fitter for Sodome and Gomorrah, then for Gods Church. And it must be followed as well in speaking of latine or any other tongue, as English, which students haue not marked; for whereas they wil not sweare in English, yet in Latine they make no bones of it, saying, Mehercuse, mediùs, fidiùs, aedipol, per deos immortales. And whereas they hold but one God in iudgement, yet in their Latine exercises they speake of Iupiter and of the immortall Gods • after the manner of the heathen. What a shame is this, that a Christian, and that in Christian schooles, should either be ashamed or not vse to speake as a Christian, but as Atheists doe? If thou haue many tongues and knowest not how to vse them well: he which hath but his mother tongue, ordering it aright, is a better linguist then thou.