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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 22 › The negative part.Chapter 22 › The negatiue 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.
IX. Lots, as when we search what must be (as they say) our fortune, by dice, bones, books, or such like. For we are not to use Lots but with great reverence: in that the disposition of them immediately cometh from the Lord, and their proper use is to decide great controversies. Pro. 16.33. The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposition thereof is of the Lord. Proverb. 18.18. The lot causeth contentions to cease, and maketh a partition among the mighty. For this cause the Land of Canaan was divided by Lots. Josu. 14. and 15. chapters. By which also both the high Priests, and the Kings were elected: as, Saul. 1. Samuel. 10. And Mathias into the place of Judas Iscariot. Acts. 1.23.
IX. Lottes, as when we searche what must be (as they say) our fortune, by dice, bones, bookes, or such lyke. For we are not to vse Lottes but with great reuerence: in that the disposition of them immediatlye commeth from the Lorde, and their proper vse is to decide great controuersies. Pro. 16.33. The lot is cast into the lappe, but the whole disposition therof is of the Lord. Prouerbe. 18.18. The lotte causeth contentions to cease, and maketh a particion among the mightye. For this cause the Land of Canaan was deuided by Lottes. Iosu. 14. and 15. chapters. By which also both the hye Preestes, and the Kinges were elected: as, Saul. 1. Samuell. 10. And Mathias into the place of Iudas Iscariot. Actes. 1.23.
X. Superstition, which is an opinion conceived of the works of Gods providence: the reason whereof, can neither be drawn out of the word of GOD, nor the whole course of nature. As for example, that it is unlucky for one in the morning to put on his shoe awry, or to put the left shoe on the right foot, to sneeze in drawing on his shoes, to have salt fall toward him, to have an hare cross him, to bleed some few drops of blood, to ⟨image 59⟩