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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
Chapter 21 › The negative part.Chapter 21 › The negatiue part.
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.
Thou shalt neither worship false gods, nor the true God with false worship.
Many things are here forbidden: I. The representation of God, by an image. For it is a lie. Habak. 2. 18. What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image and a teacher of lies. Zach. 10.2. The idols have spoken vanity. Jerem. 10. 8. The stock is a doctrine of vanity. The Eliber Council in the 39. canon hath this edict. We thought it not meet to have images in Churches, least that which is worshipped and adored, should be painted upon walls. Clement. book 5. ad Jacob. Dom. That serpent by others is wont to speak these words: We in honour of the invisible God, are accustomed to adore visible images, the which out of all controversy, is very false. August. in his treatise upon the 113. Psalm. The image also of the cross and Christ crucified, out to be abolished out of Churches, as the brazen serpent was, 2. King. 18.4. Hezekiah is commended for breaking in pieces the brazen serpent to which the children of Israel did then burn incense. This did Hezekiah, albeit at the first this serpent was made by the Lords appointment. Numb. 21.8. and was a type of Christs passion. Joh. 3.14. Origen in his 7. book against Celsus. We permit not any to adore Jesus upon the altars in images, or upon Church walls: because it is written, Thou shalt have none other gods but me. ⟨p. 45⟩Epiphanius• in that epistle which he wrote to John Bishop of Jerusalem, saith, It is against the custom of the Church, to see any image hanging in the church, whether it be of Christ, or any other saint, and therefore even with his own hands rent he asunder the veil, wherein such an image was painted. Some object the figure or sign, which appeared to Constantine, wherein he should overcome: but it was not the sign of the cross (as the Papists do triflingly imagine) but of Christs name: for the thing was made of these two greek letters [Greek or Hebrew] conjoined together, Euseb. in the life of Constant. book 1. chap. 22,25. Neither serve the Cherubims, which Solomon placed in the temple, for the defence of images: for they were only in the holy of holiest, where the people could not see them. And they were types of the glory of the Messiah, unto whom the very Angels were subject: the which we have now verified in Christ. If any man reply, that they worship not the image, but God in the image: