A09353:418
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.
II. The least approbation of idolatry. Hos. 13.2. They say one to another whilst they sacrifice a man, let them kiss the calves. Now a kiss, is an external sign of some allowance of a thing. Gen. 48.11.
II. The least approbation of idolatry. Hos. 13.2. They say one to another whilest they sacrifice a man, let them kisse the calues. Now a kis, is an externall signe of some allowance of a thing. Gen. 48.11.
Therefore it is unlawful to be present at Mass, or any idolatrous service, though our minds be absent. 1. Cor. 6.20. Ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirits, which are Gods. Rom. 11.4. What saith the Scripture? I have reserved unto my self seven thousand men, which have not bowed the knee to Baal. Euseb. 3. book. The Martyrs, when they were haled unto the Temples of idols, cried out, and with a loud voice in the midst of their ⟨image 47⟩tortures testified, that they were not idolatrous sacrificers but professed and constant Christians, rejoicing greatly that they might make such a confession.
Therefore it is vnlawfull to be present at Masse, or any idolatrous seruice, though our minds be absent. 1. Cor. 6.20. Ye are bought with a price, therfore glorifie God in your body, and in your sperites, which are Gods.