A09353:514
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 affirmative part.Chapter 22 › 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.
II. The form. We must swear. 1. Truly, least we forswear. 2. Justly, least we commit impiety. 3. In judgement, for fear of rashness. Jere. 4 2. Thou shalt swear the Lord liveth, in trueth, in judgement, and in righteousness. Isaiah. 48.1. Which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in trueth and righteousness, &c.
II. The forme. We must sweare. 1. Truely, least we forsweare. 2. Iustly, least we commit impietye. 3. In iudgement, for feare of rashnes. Iere. 4 2. Thou shalt sweare the Lord liueth, in trueth, in iudgement, and in righteousnes. Esay. 48.1. Which sweare by the name of the Lord, and make mencion of the God of Israell, but not in trueth and righteousnes, &c.
III. The end, namely, to confirm some necessary trueth in question. Heb. 6.16. Men swear by him that is greater then themselves: and an oath for confirmation, is among them an end of all strife. I call that a necessary trueth, when some doubt, which must necessarily be decided, can none other way be determined then by an oath: as when Gods glory, our neighbours body and goods, or the credit of the party for whom the oath is ministered, are necessarily called into question. Rom. 1.9. God is my witness (whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of his Son) that without ceasing I make mention of you. 2. Cor. 1.23. I call God for a record into my soul, that to spare you, I came not as yet unto Corinth.