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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.
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. Job. 31.1. I made a covenant with mine eye, why then should I think on a maid? Gen. 24.64. Rebekah lift up her eyes, and when she saw Izhak, she lighted down from the camel. 65. So she took a veil, and covered her face. Prou. 1•.13. She caught him, and kissed ⟨p. 86⟩him, and with an impudent face said unto him, &c. II. In words: when a mans talk is decent, in speaking of such things, we cannot but be ashamed of. Gen. 4.1. Then Adam knew Hevah his wife: who, &c. Psal. 51.1. A Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he had gone into Bathsheba. Isaiah 7.20. In that day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, even by them beyond the river, by the King of Ashur, the head and the hair of the feet, and it shall consume the beard. Judg. 3.24. When he was gone out, his servants came: who seeing that the doors of the parlour were shut, they said, Surely he covereth his feet, (that is, he doth his easement) in his summer chamber. Again, a mans talk must be little and submissive Matth. 12.19. Behold my servant whom I have chosen, he shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. Prou. 10.19. In many words there cannot want iniquity: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. And it is a note of a strumpet to be a giglot, and loud tongued. Prou. 7.11