A09353:399
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.
Any graven image. Here the more special is put for the more general, namely, a graven image for all counterfeit means of Gods worship.
Any grauen image. Here the more speciall is put for the more generall, namely, a grauen image for all counterfeit meanes of Gods worship.
The first part of the commandment is here illustrated, by a double distribution. The first is drawn from the causes. Thou shalt not make thee any idol, whether it be engraven in wood, or stone: or whether it be painted in a table. The second is taken from the place. Thou shalt not make thee an idol of things in heaven, as stars, and birds: or in the earth, as of man, woman, beasts: or under the earth, as fishes.
The first part of the cōmandement is here illustrated, by a double distribution. The first is drawn from the causes. Thou shalt not make thee any idol, whether it be engrauen in wood, or stone: or whether it be painted in a table. The second is taken frō the place. Thou shalt not make thee an idoll of things in heauen, as starres, and birdes: or in the earth, as of man, woman, beastes: or vnder the earth, as fishes.
This place is so expounded by Moses. Deut. 4.14. to the 20. vers.