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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.
Commodity, whereby men, as their calling, work, and trade of life is different, so do they apparel themselves: and hence it is, that some apparel is more decent for certain estates of men, then other. 4. Frugality, when a mans attire is proportionable to his ability and calling. 5. Distinction of persons, as of s•xe, ages, ⟨image 90⟩offices, times and actions. For a man hath his set attire, a woman hers, a young man apparelled on this fashion, and an old man on that. And therefore it is unseemly for a man to put on a woman's apparel, or a woman the mans. Deuteronomy. 22.5. The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth to the man, neither shall a man put on woman's raiment: for all that do• so, are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Commoditie, whereby men, as their calling, worke, and trade of life is different, so do they apparell themselues: and hence it is, that some apparell is more decent for certaine estates of men, then other. 4. Frugalitie, when a mans attire is proportionable to his abilitie and calling. 5. Distinction of persons, as of s•xe, ages, ⟨image 90⟩offices, times and actions. For a man hath his set attire, a woman hers, a yong man apparelled on this fashion, and an olde man on that. And therfore it is vnseemely for a man to put on a womans apparell, or a woman the mans. Deutronomie. 22.5. The woman shal not weare that which pertaineth to the man, neither shall a man put on womans raiment: for all that do• so, are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
To set down precisely out of Gods word, what apparel is decent, is very hard: wherefore in this case the judgement and practise of modest, grave, and sincere men, in every particular estate, is most to be followed, and men must rather keep much within the bounds of measure, then to steppe one foot without the precincts thereof. 4. Concerning the purging of excrements of nature, care must be had, that they be cast forth into some separate and close place, and there also covered. Deutr. 23.14. Thou shalt have a place without the host, whether thou shalt resort. ver. 13. And thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons, and when thou wouldest sit down without, thou shalt dig therewith, and returning, thou shalt cover thine excrements. 14. For the Lord thy God walketh in the mids of the camp to deliver thee: therefore thine host shall be holy, that he see no filthy things in thee, and turn away from thee. 1. Samu, 24.5. And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to cover his feet.