A09353:412
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 image also of the cross and Christ crucified, ought to be abolished out of churches, as the brazen serpent was. 2. King. 18.4. Hezekiah is commended for breaking in pieces the brazen serpent, to which the children of Israel did them burn incense. This did Hezekiah, albeit at the first this serpent ⟨image 46⟩was made by the Lords appointment. Nomb. 21.8. and was a type of Christs passion. Joh. 3.14. Origen in his 7. book against Celsus. We permit not any to adore Jesus upon the alters, in images, or upon church walls: because it is written, thou shalt have none other gods but me.
The image also of the crosse and Christ crucified, ought to be abolished out of churches, as the brasen serpent was. 2. King. 18.4. Hezekiah is cōmended for breaking in peeces the brasen serpent, to which the children of Israel did thē burne incense. This did Hezekiah, albeit at the first this serpent ⟨image 46⟩was made by the Lordes appointment. Nomb. 21.8. and was a type of Christes passion. Ioh. 3.14. Origen in his 7. booke against Celsus. We permit not any to adore Iesus vpon the alters, in images, or vpon church walles: because it is written, thou shalt haue none other gods but me.
Epiphanius, in that Epistle which he wrote to John Bishop of Jerusalem, saith it is against the custom of the Church to see any image hanging in the church, whether it be of Christ, or any other saint, and therefore even with his own hands rent he a sunder the veil, wherein such an image was painted.