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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 25 › The negative part.Chapter 25 › 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.
IV. In deeds: 1. To fight with, or to beat our neighbour, and to maim his body. Levit. 24. 19, 20. If any man cause any blemish in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him, breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. 2. To procure any way the death of our neighbour, whether it be by the sword, famine, or poison. Gen. 4.8. Cain rose up against his brother, and slue him. 3. To exercise tyrannous cruelty in inflicting punishments. Deut. 25.3. Forty stripes shall he cause him to have, and not past, least if he should exceed, and beat him above that with many stripes, thy brother should appear despised in thy sight. 2. Cor. 11. 24. Of the Jews I received five times forty stripes save one. 4. To use any of Gods creatures hardly. Proverb. 12.10. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the mercies of the wicked are cruel. Deut. 22.6. If thou find a birds nest in the way, in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young, but shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee, that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy days. 5. To take occasion by our neighbours infirmities, to use him discourteously, and to make him our laughing stock, or taunting recreation. Levit. 19 .14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind. 2. King. 2. 23. Little children came out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Come up thou baldhead, come up thou baldhead. 6. To injury the impotent, feeble, poor, strangers, fatherless or widows. Exod. 22.21,22. Thou shalt not do injury to a stranger, neither oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Ye shall not trouble any widow or fatherless child. 25. Thou shalt not be an usurer unto the poor. We then injury these: 1. If we pay not the labourer his hire.