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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.
They rose up the next day in the morning, and offered burn• offerings• and brought peace offerings: also the people sate them down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 1. Cor. 10.7. Neither be ye idolaters as some of them were, as it is written, &c. And Paul (1. Cor. 8.4. to the end) earnestly dehorteth the Corinthians from sitting at table in the idols temple; albeit they know that an idol is nothing in the world. Tripartite history, book 6. chap. 30. Certain soldiers refused to ado•e, as the custom was, the banner of Julian, in which were painted the images of Jupiter, Mercury, and Mars: others bring again the rewards, which they, after they had burned incense on an altar in the Emperors presence, had received. Crying, that they were Christians, and world live and die in that profession: and as for their former fact, it was of ignorance• yea though they had polluted hands with idolatry of the Paynims, yet they kept their consciences clean. III. All relics and monuments of idols: for these• after the idols themselves are once abolished, must be razed out of all memory. Exod. 23.13. To shall make no mention of the name of others gods, neither shall it be heard out of thy mouth. Isaiah 30.22. And ye shall pollute the covering of the images of silver, and the rich ornament of the images of gold, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. IV. Society with infidels, is here unlawful, serveth not only to maintain concord, but also to join men in brotherly love. Of this society there are many branches. The first, is marriage with infidels. Gen. 6.2. The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all that they liked. Mal. 2.11. Judah hath transgressed, and an abomination is committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Judah hath defiled the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughters of a strange god.