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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 Affirmative part.Chapter 26 › The Affirmatiue 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.
There are two especial virtues, which preserve chastity. Modesty, and Sobriety: Modesty, is a virtue which keepeth in each work an holy decorum, or comeliness: and it is seen, 1. In the countenance and eyes, namely, when they neither express, nor excite the concupiscence of the hart. Job. 31.1. I made a covenant with mine eyes, why then should I think on a maid? Gene. 24.64. Rebekah lift up her eyes, and when she saw Izhak, she lighted down from the camel. ver. 65. So she took a veil, and covered her face. Proverb. 7.13. She caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said unto him, &c. In words: when a mans talk is decent, in speaking of such things, which through our sins, we cannot but be ashamed of. Genesis 4.1. Then Adam knew Hevah his wife: who, &c. Psal. 51.1. A Psal• of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he bad g• in to Bathsheba. Isaiah. 7.28. In that day shall the Lord shave with a refer that is bired, even by them beyond the river, by the king of As•, the head and ⟨image 90⟩the hear of the feet, and it shall consume the heard. Judg. 3.24. When he was gone out, his servants came: who seeing that the doors of the parlour were shut, they said, Surely he covereth his feet, (that is, he doth his easement) in his summer chamber. Again, a mans talk must be little and submissive. Matth. 12.19. Behold my servant whom I have chosen, he shall not strive nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. Pro. 10.19. In many words there cannot want iniquity: but he that refraineth his lips, is wise. And it is a note of a strumpet to be a giglot, and loud tongued. Proverbs 7.11. She is babbling and loud. In apparel we must observe an holy comeliness.