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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 25 › The Negative part.Chapter 25 › The Negatiue part.
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.
IV In deeds. 1. To fight with, or to beat our neighbour, and to maim his body Levit. 24.19, 20. If any man cause any blemish in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him: Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. 2. to procure any way ⟨image 77⟩•e death of our neighbour, whether it be by the sword, famine, or poison. Gen. 4.8. Cain rose up against his brother, and slew him. 3. To exercise tyrannous cruelty in inflicting punishments. Deut. 25.3. Forty stripes shall he cause him to have, & not past, least of he should exceed, and beat him above that with many stripes, thy brother should appear despised in thy sight. 2. Cor. 11.24. Of the Jews I received five times forty stripes save one. To use any of Gods creatures hardly. Prou. 12.10. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the mercies of the wicked are cruel. Deut. 22.6. If thou find a birds nest in the way, in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young, but shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee, that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy days. 5. To take occasion by our neighbours infirmities, to use him discourteously, & to make him our laughing stock, or taunting recreation. Levit. 19.14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind. 2. King. 2.23. Little children came out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, come up thou bald head, come up thou bald head. 6. To injury the impotent, feeble, poor, strangers, fatherless, or widows.