A09353:435
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.
Popish fasting, is mere hypocrisy: because it ⟨image 50⟩[…] ⟨image 50⟩[…] ⟨image 51⟩standeth in the distinction of meats, and it is used with an opinion of merit.
Popish fasting, is meere hypocrisie: because it ⟨image 50⟩〈…〉 ⟨image 50⟩〈…〉 ⟨image 51⟩standeth in the distinction of meates, and it is vsed with an opinion of merite.
External abstinence from meats, without internal and spiritual fasting from sin, and unlawful desires. Isaiah. 58.5, 6. Is this such a fast, as I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and bow down his head as a bulrush, & lie down in sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fasting, or an acceptable day unto the Lord? Is not this the fasting that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to take off the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
External abstinence from meates, without internall and spirituall fasting from sinne, and vnlawfull desires. Esay. 58.5, 6. Is this such a fast, as I haue chosen, that a man should afflict his soule for a day, and bow downe his head as a bulrush, & lie downe in sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fasting, or an acceptable day vnto the Lord? Is not this the fasting that I haue chosen, to loose the bandes of wickednesse, to take off the heauie burdens, and to let the oppressed goe free, and that ye breake euery yoke?