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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 26 › The negative part.Chapter 26 › The negatiue parte.
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. With one of the same sex. Levit. 18.22. Thou shalt not lie with the male, as one lieth with a woman, for it is abomination. This is a sin, which they commit, whom God hath given over to a reprobate sense. Rom. 1.26. For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change their natural use, ⟨image 86⟩into that which is against nature. v. 27. And the men left the natural use of the women, and burned in their lusts one toward another, & man with man wrought filthiness: It was the sin of Sodom, Genesis. 19. where it was so common, that to this day it is termed Sodomy.
3. With one of the same sexe. Leuit. 18.22. Thou shalt not lie with the male, as one lieth with a woman, for it is abhomination. This is a sin, which they commit, whom God hath giuen ouer to a reprobate sence. Rom. 1.26. For this cause God gaue them vp to vile affections: for euen their women did change their natural vse, ⟨image 86⟩into that which is against nature. v. 27. And the men left the naturall vse of the women, and burned in their lustes one toward another, & man with man wrought filthines: It was the sin of Sodom, Genesis. 19. where it was so common, that to this day it is tearmed Sodomie.
4. With such as be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity, prohibited in the word of god.