A09353:667
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.
let my wife grind unto another man: and let other men bow down upon her. Mans posterity feeleth the smart of this sin. Job. 31.12. This (adultery) is a fire that shall devour to destruction, and which shall root out all mine increase. To conclude, though this sin be committed never so closely, yet God will reveal it. Nomb. 5. from the 12. verse to the 23. And it usually hath one of these two, as companions: namely, dullness of hart, or a marvellous horror of conscience. Hose. Chap 4. ver. 11. Whoredom, and wine, take away their hart.
let my wife grind vnto another man: and let other men bow down vpon her. Mans posteritie feeleth the smart of this sinne. Iob. 31.12. This (adulterye) is a fire that shall deuoure to destruction, and which shall roote out all mine encrease. To conclude, though this sinne be committed neuer so closely, yet God wil reueale it. Nomb. 5. from the 12. verse to the 23. And it vsually hath one of these two, as companions: namely, dulnes of hart, or a marueilous horrour of conscience. Hose. Chap 4. ver. 11. Whordome, and wine, take away their hart.
As for the Patriarchs Polygamy, or marrying of many wives, albeit it cannot be defended, yet it may be excused, either because it served to the enlarging of the number of mankind, when there were but few: or at the least, to the propagation of the Church of God.
As for the Patriarks Polygamie, or marrying of manye wiues, albeit it cannot be defended, yet it may be excused, either because it serued to the enlarging of the number of mankinde, when there were but few: or at the least, to the propagation of the Church of God.