A09353:630
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.
3. The ministers sin against their neighbours, is this, not to preach the word of God to their charge, that they thereby might be instructed in the ways of life. Prou. 29.18. Where there is no vision the people ⟨image 79⟩decay, but he that keepeth the Law is blessed. Esa. 56.10. Their watchmen are all blind, they have no knowledge, they are all dumb dogs, they can not bark: they lie and sleep, and delight in sleeping. And these greedy dogs can never have enough: and these shepherds they can not understand: for they all look to their own way, every one for his advantage, and for his own purpose. Ezech. 3.18. When I shall say to the wicked, thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hands.
3. The ministers sin against their neighbours, is this, not to preach the word of God to their charge, that they thereby might be instructed in the waies of life. Prou. 29.18. Where there is no vision the people ⟨image 79⟩decay, but he that keepeth the Law is blessed. Esa. 56.10. Their watchmen are all blinde, they haue no knowledge, they are all dumme dogges, they can not barke: they lie and sleepe, and delight in sleeping. And these greedie dogges can neuer haue enough: and these shepheardes they can not vnderstand: for they all looke to their owne way, euerie one for his aduantage, and for his owne purpose. Ezech. 3.18. When I shall say to the wicked, thou shalt surely die, and thou giuest him not warning, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquitie, but his bloud will I require at thy handes.