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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 first, is Marriage with infidels. Gen. 6.2. The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and they took them wives of all that they liked. Malac. 2.11. Judah hath transgressed, and an abomination is committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Judah hath defiled the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughters of a strange god. Ezra. 9.14. Should we return to break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of such abomination? 2. King. 8.18. He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.
The first, is Marriage with infidels. Gen. 6.2. The sonnes of God saw the daughters of men, that they were faire, and they tooke them wiues of all that they liked. Malac. 2.11. Iudah hath transgressed, and an abomination is committed in Israel, and in Ierusalem: for Iudah hath defiled the holinesse of the Lord, which he loued, and hath married the daughters of a strange god. Ezra. 9.14. Should we returne to breake thy cōmandements, and ioyne in affinitie with the people of such abomination? 2. King. 8.18. He walked in the wayes of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did euill in the sight of the Lord.
The second, is the league in war: namely, a mutual confederacy, to assist one another in the same war, and to have one and the same enemies. This is sundry ways impious. I. If it be unlawful to crave assistance of Gods enemies, it is likewise