A09353:515
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.
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.
III. The end, namely, to confirme some necessary trueth in question. Heb. 6.16. Men sweare by him that is greater then themselues: and an oathe for confirmation, is among them an end of all strife. I call that a necessarye trueth, when some doubt, which must necessarily be decided, can none other waye be determined then by an othe: as when Gods glory, our neighbours body and goods, or the credite of the party for whom the othe is ministred, are necessarilye called into question. Rom. 1.9. God is my witnes (whome I serue in my spirite in the Gospell of his Son) that without ceasing I make mention of you. 2. Cor. 1.23. I call God for a record into my soule, that to spare you, I came not as yet vnto Corinth.
IIII. The divers kinds of sorts of oaths. An oath is public, or private.