A09339:4672
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.
The third sin is the maintenance of Adultery. And that is manifest: first of all, in the Toleration of the stews flat against the commandment of God. Deut. 23.17. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel: neither shall there be a whore keeper of the sons of Israel. And this toleration is an occasion of uncleanness to many young men & women, that otherwise would abstain from all such kind of filthiness. And what an abomination is this, when brother and brother, father and son, nephew and uncle, shall come to one and the same harlot, one before or after the other. Secondly,1 their Law beyond the fourth degree allows the marriage of any persons: and by this means, they sometime allow incest. For in the unequal collateral line, the person next the common stock is a father or mother to the brothers or sisters posterity, as for example.
The third sinne is the maintenance of Adulterie. And that is manifest: first of all, in the Toleration of the stewes flat against the commandement of God. Deut. 23.17. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel: neither shal there be a whore keeper of the sonnes of Israel. And this toleration is an occasion of vncleannes to many young men & women, that otherwise would abstaine from all such kinde of filthines. And what an abomination is this, when brother and brother, father and sonne, nephew and vncle, shall come to one and the same harlot, one before or after the other. Secondly,1 their Lawe beyond the fourth degree allowes the marriage of any persons: and by this meanes, they sometime allowe incest. For in the vnequall collaterall line, the person next the common stock is a father or mother to the brothers or sisters posteritie, as for example.
- 1Greg. c. 9. de consang.