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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.
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.
To set down precisely out of Gods word, what apparell is decent, is verye hard: wherefore in this case the iudgement and practise of modest, graue, and sincere men, in euery particular estate, is most to be followed, and men must rather keepe much within the bounds of measure, then to steppe one foote without the precinctes thereof. 4. Concerning the purging of excrementes of nature, care must be had, that they be cast forth into some separate and close place, and there also couered. Deutr. 23.14. Thou shalt haue a place without the hoste, whether thou shalt resort. ver. 13. And thou shalt haue a paddle among thy weapons, and when thou wouldest sit downe without, thou shalt dig therwith, and returning, thou shalt couer thine excrements. 14. For the Lord thy God walketh in the mids of the campe to deliuer thee: therefore thine hoste shall be holie, that he see no filthye thinges in thee, and turne away from thee. 1. Samu, 24.5. And he came to the shepcoats by the way, where there was a caue, and Saul went in to couer his feet.
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