A09353:602
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 › The negative part.Chapter 24 › 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.
The negative part.
The negatiue parte.
Diminish not the excellency or dignity, which is in the person of thy neighbour. Hither are referred these sins.
Diminishe not the excellency or dignitye, which is in the person af thy neighbour. Hither are referred these sinnes.
First, against our superiors. I. Unreverent behaviour and contempt of them. The actions hereof, are, deriding our superiors. Gen. 9.22. And when Have the father of canaan saw the nakedness of his Father, he told his two brethren without. Pro. 30, 17. The eye that mocketh his Father, and despiseth the instruction of his mother, let the Ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young Eagles eat it. To speak evil of, or revile our superiors. Exod. 21.17. And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall dye the death.
First, against our superiours. I. Vnreuerent behauiour and contempt of them. The actions hereof, are, deriding our superiours.