A09353:472
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 affirmative part.Chapter 21 › The affirmitiue parte.
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.
Fasting is, when a man perceiving the want of some blessing, or suspecting and seeing some imminent calamity upon himself, or other, abstaineth, not only from flesh for a season, but also from all delights and sustenance, that he thereby may make a more diligent search into his own sins, or offer most humble prayers unto God, that he would withhold that, which his anger threatened. Mat. 9.15. ⟨image 56⟩Can the Children of the marriage Chamber mourn, so long as the Bridegroom is with them? 1. Corinthians 7.5. Defraud not one another, except for a time, that ye may the better fast and pray. Joel. 2.12. Wherefore even now, saith the Lord, be ye turned unto me, with all your hart, with fasting and prayer. vers. 13. Rent your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, long suffering, and of great kindness, that he might repent him of this evil. vers. 15. Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, vers. 16. Gather the people, sanctify the Congregation, gather the Elders, assemble the Children, and those that suck the breasts. Let the Bridegroom go forth of his Chamber, and the bride out of her bride chamber: vers. 17. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the alter, and let them say, Spare thy people, O God, &c.
Fasting is, when a man perceiuing the want of some blessing, or suspecting and seeing some imminent calamitie vpon himselfe, or other, absteineth, not onely from flesh for a season, but also from all delights and sustenance, that he thereby may make a more diligent search into his own sinnes, or offer moste humble prayers vnto God, that hee would withhold that, which his anger thretned. Mat. 9.15. ⟨image 56⟩Can the Children of the marriage Chamber mourne, so long as the Bridegrome is with them? 1. Corinthians 7.5. Defraude not one another, except for a time, that ye may the better fast and pray.