A09353:416
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.
If any man reply, that they worship not the image, but God in the image: let him know that the creature can not comprehend the image of the creator, and if it could, yet God would not be worshipped in it, because it is a dead thing: yea the ⟨image 47⟩work of mans hands, not of Gods: and therefore is more base, then the smallest living creature of the which we may lawfully say, it is the work of God. This evinceth, that no kind of divine worship belongeth to an image, neither simply or by relation, whatsoever the sophistical school-men jangle to the contrary.
If any man reply, that they worshippe not the image, but God in the image: let him knowe that the creature can not comprehend the image of the creator, and if it could, yet God would not be worshipped in it, because it is a dead thing: yea the ⟨image 47⟩worke of mans handes, not of Gods: and therfore is more base, then the smallest liuing creature of the which wee may lawfully say, it is the worke of God. This euinceth, that no kinde of diuine worship belongeth to an image, neither simply or by relation, whatsoeuer the sophisticall schoole-men iangle to the contrary.
If any man be yet desirous of images, he may have at hand the preaching of the gospel, a lively image of Christ crucified. Gal. 3.1. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth, to whom Jesus Christ before was described in your sight, and among you crucified? The like may be said of the two Sacraments. And that saying of Clemens is true, in his 5. book of Recognit. If you will truly adore the Image of GOD, do good unto man, and ye shall worship his true image: for man is the image of GOD.
If any man be yet desirous of images, he may haue at hand the preaching of the gospell, a liuely image of Christ crucified.