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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 affirmative part.Chapter 25 › The affirmatiue 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.
II. Concerning his body, we are to regard it alive and dead. Being alive, we ought if need be, 1. to minister unto it food and raiment. Matth. 25.41, 42. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat, I thirsted and ye gave me no drink &c. vers. 45. In as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. ⟨image 83⟩2. To lend our helping hand, when our neighbours body is in any danger. 1. Joh. 3.16. Hereby we perceived love, that he laid down his life for us, therefore also ought we to lay down our lives for the brethren. v. 17.
II. Concerning his bodie, we are to regard it aliue and dead. Being aliue, we ought if neede be, 1. to minister vnto it foode and rayment. Matth. 25.41, 42. Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the deuill and his angels. For I was an hungred and ye gaue me no meate, I thirsted and ye gaue me no drinke &c. vers. 45. In as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. ⟨image 83⟩2. To lend our helping hand, when our neighbors bodie is in any danger. 1. Ioh. 3.16. Hereby we perceiued loue, that he layd downe his life for vs, therefore also ought we to lay down our liues for the brethrē. v. 17.
When a man is dead, we ought to commit the dead corps to the grave, as may appear by these arguments. 1. The instinct of Nature it self. 2. The examples of the Patriarchs, and other holy personages. Abraham buried Sarah.