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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.
A funeral ought to be solemnized after an honest, and civil manner: namely, agreeable to the nature, and credit as well of those which remain alive, as them which are dead. Concerning the living, they must see that 1. Their mourning be moderate, and such, as may well express their affection and love to the party departed. Joh. 11.34. He said, Where have ye laid him? they answered, Lord, come and see. ver. 35. Then Jesus wept. And (ver. 36.) the Jews said, Behold how he loved him. 3. They must avoid superstition, and not surmise that funeral ceremonies are available to the dead. Such are the tites of the Church of Rome; as to be buried in a Church, especially under the altar, and in a Friars cool. 3. They ought to take heed of superfluous pomp, and solemnities. For of all ostentations of pride, that is most foolish, to be boasting of a loathsome and a deformed corps. Esa. 22.15, 16. Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee to that treasurer, to Shebnah the steward of the house, & say, what hast thou to do here? and whom hast thou here? that thou shouldest here how thee out a sepulchre, as he that howeth out his sepulchre in an hie place, or that graveth […] habitation for himself in a rock.
A funerall ought to be solemnized after an honest, and ciuile maner: namely, agreeable to the nature, and credite as well of those which remaine aliue, as them which are dead. Concerning the liuing, they must see that 1. Their mourning be moderate, and such, as may well expresse their affection and loue to the partie departed. Ioh. 11.34. He sayde, Where haue ye layde him? they answered, Lord, come and see. ver. 35. Then Iesus wept. And (ver. 36.) the Jewes said, Behold how he loued him. 3. They must auoyde superstition, and not surmise that funerall ceremonies are auaileable to the dead. Such are the tites of the Church of Rome; as to be buried in a Church, especially vnder the altar, and in a Friars coole. 3. They ought to take heede of superfluous pompe, and solemnities. For of all ostentations of pride, that is most foolish, to be boasting of a lothsome and a deformed corps. Esa. 22.15, 16. Thus sayth the Lord God of hostes, Go, get thee to that treasurer, to Shebnah the steward of the house, & say, what hast thou to doe here? and whom hast thou here? that thou shouldest here howe thee out a sepulchre, as he that howeth out his sepulchre in an hie place, or that graueth habitation for himselfe in a rocke.