A09353:577
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 24: Of the fifth Commandment.Chapter 24: Of the fift Commaundement.
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.
Thy father. By a figure we must here understand, all those that are our superiors: as parents, magistrates, ministers, our Elders, and those that do excel us to any gifts whatsoever. The Kings of Gerar were called Abimelech. Gen. 20.2. Gen. 45.8. God hath made me a father unto Pharaoh, and Lord over all his house. 1. Corinth. 4.15. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you. 2. Kings. 5.13. But his servants came, and spake unto him, and said, Father, if the Prophet had commanded thee a great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? 2. King. 2.12. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, my father, my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
Thy father. By a figure we must here vnderstand, all those that are our superiours: as parents, magistrates, ministers, our Elders, and those that do excell vs to any giftes whatsoeuer. The Kings of Gerar were called Abimelech. Gen. 20.2. Gen. 45.8. God hath made me a father vnto Pharaoh, and Lorde ouer all his house. 1. Corinth. 4.15. For though ye haue tenne thousande instructours in Christ, yet haue ye not many fathers: for in Christ Iesus I haue begotten you. 2. Kings. 5.13. But his seruants came, and spake vnto him, and sayde, Father, if the Prophet had commanded thee a great thing, wouldest thou not haue done it? 2. King. 2.12. And Elisha saw it, and he cryed, my father, my father, my father, the charet of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.