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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 26 › The negative part.Chapter 26 › 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 no way either hurt, or hinder thy neighbours chastity.
Thou shalt no way either hurt, or hinder thy neighbours chastitie.
In this place are prohibited: I. The lust of the heart, or the evil concupiscence of the flesh. Matth. 5.28. I say unto you, whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, he hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. Colos. 3.5. Mortify your members which are on earth: fornication, uncleanness, the inordinate affection, evil concupiscence. II. Burning in the flesh, which is an inward fervency of lust, whereby the godly motions of the heart are hindered, overwhelmed, and, as it were, with contrary fire, burnt up. 1. Cor. 7.9. If they cannot abstain, let them marry: for it is better to marry then to burn. III. Strange pleasures about generation, prohibited in the word of God: the which are many. I. With beasts. Levit. 18.23. Thou shalt not be with any beast, to be defiled therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: for it is an abomination. II. With the devil, as witches do by their own confession. For why should not a spirit as well have society with a witch, as to eat meat? III. With one of the same sex. Levit. 18.22. Thou shalt not lie with the male as one lieth with a woman: for it is abomination. This is a sin which they commit, whom God hath given over into a reprobate sense. Rom. 1.26. For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change their natural use into that which is against nature. 27. And the men left the natural use ⟨p. 83⟩