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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.
With those, whereof one is married, or at the least betrothed. This sin is called adultery: and God hath inflicted by his word the same punishment upon them, which commit this sin, after they be betrothed, as he doth upon such as are already married. Deut. 22.22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, then they shall die even both twain: to wit, the man that lay with the wife, and the wife: so thou shalt put away evil from Israel. 23. If a maid be betrothed to an husband, and a man find her in the town and lie with her. 24. Then shall ye bring them both out unto the gates of the same city, and shall stone them to death with stones. This is a marvellous great sin, as may appear in that it is the punishment of idolatry. Rom. 1.23. They turned the glory of the uncorruptible God, to the similitude of the image of a corruptible man, &c. 24. Wherefore God gave them up unto their hearts lusts, unto uncleanness. Yea, this sin is more heinous then theft. Prou. 6.30. Men do not despise a thief, when he stealeth to satisfy his soul when he is hungry: 32. But he that committeth adultery with a woman, is destitute of understanding, he that doth it, destroyeth his own soul. Again, the adulterer breaketh the covenant of marriage, which is Gods covenant. Prou. 2.17. Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. Adulterers dishonest their own bodies. 1. Cor. 6.18. Flee fornication, every sin that a man doth, is without the body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. And bereave their neighbours of a great and unrecoverable benefit: namely of chastity. As for the children which are begotten in this sort, they are shut out from that preeminence, which they otherwise might obtain in the congregation. Deut. 23.2. A bastard shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord: even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord. He maketh his family a stews, as appeareth in David, whose adultery was punished by Absaloms lying with his fathers concubines.