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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.
Enchantment or charming is that, whereby beasts, but especially young children, and men of riper years, are by Gods permission infected, poisoned, hurt, bounden, killed, and otherwise molested, or contrarily, sometimes cured of Satan, by mumbling up some few words, making certain characters and figures, framing circles, hanging amulets about the neck, or other parts, by herbs, medicines and such like trumpery, that thereby the punishment of the faithless may be augmented, in reposing their strength upon such rotten slaves, and the faithful may be tried, whether they will commit the like abominations. Psalm. 18.4. Their poison is even like the poison of a Serpent: like the deaf adder that stoppeth his ear, which hear not the voice of the enchanter, though he be most expert in charming. Eccle. 10.11. If the serpent bite when he is not charmed, &c.
Enchauntment or charming is that, whereby beasts, but especially yong children, and men of riper yeeres, are by Gods permission infected, poisoned, hurt, bounden, killed, and otherwise molested, or contrarilye, sometimes cured of Satan, by mumbling vp some fewe words, making certain characters and figures, framing circles, hanging amulets about the neck, or other parts, by hearbs, medicines and such like trumperye, that thereby the punishmente of the faithles maye be augmented, in reposing their strength vpon such rotten slaues, and the faithfull may be tried, whether they will commit the like abhominations. Psalm. 18.4. Their poyson is euen like the poison of a Serpent: like the deafe adder that stoppeth his eare, which heare not the voice of the enchanter, though he be most expert in charming. Eccle. 10.11. If the serpent bite when he is not charmed, &c.
Thus have we heard Magic described out of Gods word, the which how, as yet, common it is, in those especially which are without God in the world, and whom Satan by all means strongly deludeth, the lamentable experience which many men, and most places have thereof, can sufficiently prove unto us.