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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.
These and such like, albeit they have true events, yet are we not to give credence unto them: for god permitteth them to have such success, that they which see and hear such things, may be tried, and it may appear what confidence they have in God. Deut. 13.
These and such like, albeit they haue true euents, yet are we not to giue credence vnto them: for god permitteth them to haue such successe, that they which see and heare such things, may be tried, and it may appeare what confidence they haue in God. Deut. 13.
XI. Astrology, whether it be in casting of nativities, or making of Prognostications. This counterfeit art is nothing else, but a mere abuse of the heavens, and of the Stars. 1. The twelve houses which are the ground of all figures, are made of the feigned signs of a supposed Zodiac, in the highest spear, commonly called the first Moveable. & therefore to these houses, a man can not truly ascribe any influence or virtue. 2. This art ariseth not from experience, because it never happeneth that the same position of all stars is twice together observed: and if it were, yet could there not certain ground arise from thence, in that the efficacy & influence of the stars is confusedly mixed both in ⟨image 59⟩the air, and the earth, as if all herbs were mingled together in one vessel. 3. This art withdraweth mens minds from the contemplation of Gods providence, when as they hear, that all things fall out by the motion and disposition of the stars. 4. Stars were not ordained to foretell things to come, but to distinguish days, months, and years. Gen. 1.14. Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to separate the day from the night: and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years. 5.