A09353:501
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.
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⟩burn on the right ear. Again, that it is contrarily good luck to find old iron, to have drink spilled on him, for the left ear to burn, to pare our nails on some one day in the week, to dream of some certain things. The like superstition is, to surmise that beasts may be tamed by verses prayers, or the like: that the repetition of the creed or Lords prayer, can infuse into herbs, a faculty of healing diseases. Deut. 18.11. Here also is palmistry condemned, when by the inspection of the hand, our fortune is foretold.
X. Superstition, which is an opinion conceiued of the woorks of Gods prouidence: the reason whereof, can neither be drawen out of the word of GOD, nor the whole course of nature. As for example, that it is vnlucky for one in the morning to put on his shoe awrye, or to put the left shoe on the right foot, to sneeze in drawing on his shoes, to haue salt fall towarde him, to haue an hare crosse him, to bleede some fewe droppes of blood, to ⟨image 59⟩burne on the right eare. Againe, that it is contrarily good luck to finde olde yron, to haue drinke spilled on him, for the left eare to burne, to pare our nayles on some one day in the weeke, to dreame of some certain things. The like superstition is, to surmyze that beastes may be tamed by verses prayers, or the like: that the repetition of the creed or Lords praier, can infuse into hearbes, a facultie of healing diseases. Deut. 18.11. Here also is palmestry condemned, when by the inspection of the hand, our fortune is foretolde.