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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 21 › The negative part.Chapter 21 › The negatiue 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.
The negative part.
The negatiue part.
Thou shalt neither worship false Gods, nor the true God with a false worship. Many things are here forbidden.
Thou shalt neither worship false Gods, nor the true God with a false worshippe. Many thinges are here forbidden.
I. The representation of God, by an image. For it is a lie. Habak. 2.18. What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image and a teacher of lies. Zach. 10.2. The idols have spoken vanity. Jer. 10.8. The stock is a doctrine of vanity. The Eliber Council in the 39. canon hath this edict. We thought it not meet to have images in Churches, lest that which is worshipped and adored, should be painted upon walls. Clement. book 5. ad Jacob. Do. That serpent by others is wont to speak these words: we in honour of the invisible God, are accustomed to adore visible images, the which out of all controversy, is very false. August. in his treatise upon the 113. Psal.