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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.
I. Soothsaying, divination by the flying of birds. Deut. 18.11.
I. Soothsaying, diuination by the flying of birdes. Deut. 18.11.
II. The kind of divination, which is, by looking into beasts entrails. Ezech. 21.21. The king of Babel, &c. consulted with idols, and looked in the liver.
II. The kinde of diuination, which is, by looking into beasts entrals. Ezech. 21.21. The king of Babel, &c. consulted with idols, and looked in the liuer.
III. Necromancy, or conjuring: by which the devil, in the form of some dead man, is sought unto for counsel. 1. Sam. 28.11. Then said the woman, whom wilt thou I call up unto thee▪ and he said call up Samuel unto me. ver. 13. The king said unto her, fear not, but what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth. ver. 14. Then said he unto her, what fashion is he of? and she answered, an old man cometh up lapped in a mantel. And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he inclined his face to the ground, and bowed him self. and Samuel said to Saul, why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? Then Saul answered, I am in great distress, for the Philistines make war against me, &c. This Samuel, was not that true Prophet of God, who anointed Saul King over Israel: for, I. the