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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.
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. Gen. 23.19. Jacob is buried by his sons. Gen. 50.12. Steven by religious and devout men. Act. 8.2. 3. The Lords own approbation of burial, in that he numbereth it amongst his benefits. For the want thereof is a curse. Jer. 22.19. He (viz. Jehoiakim) shall be buried as an ass is buried, even drawn and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem. Therefore rather then Moses should be unburied, the Lord himself did bury him. Deut. 34.5, 6. Moses the servant of the Lord died in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And be buried him in a valley, in the land of Moab, over against Beth-•oor, but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. 4. There is no dead carcass so loathsome as a man is, the which both argueth the necessity of burial, and how ugly we are in the sight of God, by reason of sin. 5. The body must rise again out of the earth, that it may be made a perpetual mansion house for the soul to dwell in. 6. The bodies of the faithful are the temples of the holy Ghost, and therefore must rise again to glory. 7. Burial is a testimony of the love, and reverence we bear to the deceased.
When a man is dead, we ought to commit the dead corps to the graue, as may appeare by these arguments. 1. The instinct of Nature it selfe. 2. The examples of the Patriarkes, and other holy personages. Abraham buried Sarah. Gen. 23.19. Iaakob is buried by his sonnes. Gen. 50.12. Steuen by religious and deuout men. Act. 8.2. 3. The Lordes owne approbatiō of buriall, in that he numbreth it amongst his benefites. For the want thereof is a curse.