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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 affirmative part.Chapter 26 › The affirmatiue 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.
Chastity is the purity of soul and body, as much as belongeth to generation. The mind is chaste, when it is free, or at the least, freed from fleshly concupiscence. The body is chaste, when it putteth not in execution the concupiscences of the flesh. 1. Thess. 4.•. This is the will of God, even your sanctification, and that ye should abstain from fornication. 4. That •uery one of you should know how to possess his vessel in holiness and honour, 5. And not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles, which know not God. 1. Cor. 7.34. The unmarried wom•n careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit.
Chastitie is the puritie of soule and bodie, as much as belongeth to generation. The minde is chaste, when it is free, or at the least, freed from fleshly concupiscence. The bodie is chaste, when it putteth not in execution the concupiscences of the flesh. 1. Thess. 4.•. This is the will of God, euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication. 4. That •uery one of you should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holines and honour, 5. And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles, which know not God. 1. Cor. 7.34. The vnmarried wom•n careth for the things of the Lord, that shee may be holy both in bodie and spirit.
There are two especial virtues which preserve chastity, Modesty, and Sobriety. Modesty is a virtue which keepeth in each work an holy decorum, or comeliness: and it is seen, I. in the countenance and eyes, namely, when they neither express, nor excite the concupiscence of the heart.