A09353:391
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
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.
The resolution.
Thou shalt not make. This is the first part of the commandment, forbidding to make an idol: Now an idol is not only a certain representation, and image, of some feigned God, but also of the true Jehovah. The which may be proved against the papists by these arguments. The first is Deut. 4.15.16. Take therefore good heeds unto your selves, for ye saw no image in the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire, that ye corrupt not your selves, and make you a graven image or representation of any figure: whether it be the likeness of male of female. Out of the words uttered by Moses, a reason may be framed thus.
Thou shalt not make. This is the first part of the cō mandement, forbidding to make an idoll: Now an idoll is not onely a certaine representation, and image, of some feigned God, but also of the true Iehoua. The which may be proued against the papistes by these arguments. The first is Deut. 4.15.16. Take therefore good heeds vnto your selues, for ye saw no image in the day that the Lorde spake vnto you in Horeb, out of the middes of the fire, that ye corrupt not your selues, and make you a grauen image or representation of any figure: whether it be the likenesse of male of female. Out of the words vttered by Moses, a reason may be framed thus.
If ye saw no image (namely of God) ye shall make none.
If ye saw no image (namely of God) ye shal make none.