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A golden chain, or the description of theologyA golden chaine, or the description of theologie
A golden chain, or the description of theology containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view of the order whereof, is to be seen in the table annexed. Written in Latin by William Perkins, and translated by an other. Hereunto is adjoined the order which M. Theodore Beza used in comforting troubled consciences.A golden chaine, or the description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods woord. A view of the order wherof, is to be seene in the table annexed. Written in Latine by William Perkins, and translated by an other. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting troubled consciences.
London: printed by Edward Alde, 1591
Chapter 20 › The negative part.Chapter 20 › The negatiue parte.
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.
II. Confidence in creatures, whether it be in their strength as Jeremiah 17.5. Cursed is the man tha• hath his confidence in man, and maketh flesh his arm, but his hart slideth from the Lord. Or riches. Matth. 6.24. Ye cannot serve God, and riches. Ephes. 5.5. No covetous person, which is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Or defenced places. Jeremiah 49.16. Thy fear, and the pride of thine hart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the Rock, and keepest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the Eagle, I will bring thee down from thence saith the Lord. Or pleasure, and dainties: to such their belly is their God. ⟨image 43⟩Phil. 3.14. Or in Physicians. 2. Chron. 16.12. And Asa in the nine and thirtieth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet, and his disease was extreme, yet he sought not the Lord in his disease, but to the Physicians. Briefly, to this place principally may be adjoined that devilish confidence, which Magicians and all such as take advise at them, do put in the devil, and his works, Levit. 20.6. If any turn after such as work with spirits, and after soothsayers, to go a whoring after them, then will I set my face against that person, and will cut him off from amongst his people. The Devil is as it were Gods ape. For he hath also his words, his sacraments, his faith.
II. Confidence in creatures, whether it be in their strength as Ieremy 17.5. Cursed is the man tha• hath his confidence in man, and maketh fleshe his arme, but his hart slideth from the Lord. Or riches. Matth. 6.24. Ye cannot serue God, and riches.