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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.
Conjectural, whereby things are by Satan's direction prophesied of before. Of prophesies, some are done with means, others without.
Coniecturall, whereby things are by Satans direction prophesied of before. Of prophesies, some are done with meanes, others without.
Prophesies done with means, are these.
Prophesies done with meanes, are these.
I. Soothsaying, divination by the flying of birds. Deut. 18.11. II. The kind of divination, which is, by looking into beasts entrails. Ezech. 21.21. The king of Babel, &c consulted with idols, and looked in the liver. III. Necromancy, or conjuring: by which the devil, in the form of some dead man, is sought unto for counsel. 1. Sam. 28. 11. Then said the woman; Whom wilt thou I call up unto thee? And •e said, Call up Samuel unto me. vers. 13. Then said he unto her, Fear not, but what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth. v. 14. Then said he unto her, What fashion is he of? and she answered, An old man cometh up lapped in a mantle. And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he inclined his face to the ground, and bowed himself. And Samuel said to Saul, why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? Then Saul answered, I am in great distress: for the Philisti••s make war against me, &c. This Samuel, was not that true Prophet of God, who anointed Saul King over Israel: for, 1. the souls of the Saints departed, are far from the devils claws and dominion. 2. That good Samuel, if it had been he indeed, would never have permitted Saul to worship him. 3. He faith to wicked Saul, To morrow shalt thou be with me, v. 14. Neither could this be a bare illusion, and, as I may say, legerdemain of the witch, for he plainly foretold Sauls destruction, which an ignorant woman could not know, much less durst she constantly avouch any such matter to the king. It remaineth then, that this Samuel, was a mere illusion of Satan.