A09353:413
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.
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.
Epiphanius, in that Epistle which he wrote to Iohn Bishop of Hierusalem, sayth it is against the custome of the Church to see any image hanging in the church, whether it be of Christ, or any other saint, and therefore euen with his owne handes rent he a sunder the vaile, wherein such an image was painted.
Some object the figure or sign, which appeared to Constantine, wherein he should overcome, but it was not the sign of the cross (as the Papists do triflingly imagine) but of Christs name: for the thing was made of these two greek letters, [Greek or Hebrew] conjoined together. Euseb. in the life of Constantine. book 1. chap. 22.25.
Some obiect the figure or signe, which appeared to Constantine, wherein he should ouercome, but it was not the signe of the crosse (as the Papists do triflingly imagine) but of Christes name: for the thing was made of these two greeke letters, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 conioyned together. Euseb. in the life of Constantine. booke 1. chap. 22.25.
Neither serve the cherubimes, which Solomon placed in the temple, for the defence of images: for they were only in the holy of holiest, where the people could not see them. And they were types of the glory of the Messiah, unto whom the very Angels were subject: the which we have now verified in Christ.
Neither serue the cherubimes, which Salomon placed in the temple, for the defence of images: for they were onely in the holy of holiest, where the people could not see them. And they were types of the glory of the Messiah, vnto whom the very Angels were subiect: the which we haue now verified in Christ.