A09353:669
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.
7. With man and wife. They abuse their liberty, if they know each other so long as the woman is in her flowers. Ezek. 22.10. In thee have they discovered their Fathers shame, in thee have they vexed her that was polluted in her flowers. Levit. 18.19. Thou shalt not go unto a woman to uncover her shame, as long as she is put apart for her disease. Ezek. 8.6. If a man hath not lien with a menstruous woman. Again, they sin if they live together intemperately. Ambros. lib. de Philos. which Augustine citeth, lib. 2. contra Julian, saith, that he committeth adultery with his wife, who in the use of wedlock hath neither regard of seemliness nor honesty. Hierome in his 1. book contra Julianum, saith. A wise man ought to love ⟨image 88⟩his wife in judgement, not in affection. He will not give the bridle unto headstrong pleasure, nor headily company with his wife. Nothing (saith he) is more shameless, than to make a strumpet of his wife. 8. Nocturnal pollutions, which arise of immoderate diet, or unchaste cogitations, going before in the day. Deut 23.10. Onan's sin Gen. 38.8. was not much unlike these.
7. With man and wife. They abuse their libertie, if they know eche other so long as the woman is in her flowers. Ezek. 22.10. In thee haue they discocouered their Fathers shame, in thee haue they vexed her that was polluted in her flowers. Leuit. 18.19. Thou shalt not goe vnto a woman to vncouer her shame, as long as she is put aparte for her disease. Ezek. 8.6. If a man hath not lyen with a menstrous woman. Againe, they finne if they liue together intemperately. Ambros. lib. de Philos. which Augustine citeth, lib. 2. contra Iulian, saith, that he committeth adulterye with his wife, who in the vse of wedlock hath neither regarde of seemelynes nor honestye. Hierome in his 1. booke contra Iulianum, saith. A wise man ought to loue