A09353:690
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 27 › The negative par•.Chapter 27 › The negatiue par•.
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.
II. Unjust dealing, the which is either in heart, or deed. Unjust dealing in hart is named covetousness. Mat. 15.19. Out of the hart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, &c. Covetousness is idolatry. Ephe. 3.5. We know that no covetous person, which is an idolater, shall enter into the kingdom of Christ and of God. Yea, it is the very root of all evil. 1. Timothy. 6.9. The love of money is the root of all evil, which whilst some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with ma• •w•.
II. Vniust dealing, the which is either in heart, or deed. Vniust dealing in hart is named couetousnes. Mat. 15.19. Out of the hart come euill thoughtes, murthers, adulteries, fornications, theftes, &c. Couetousnes is idolatrie. Ephe. 3.5. We know that no couetous person, which is an idolatour, shall enter into the kingdome of Christ and of God. Yea, it is the very roote of all euill. 1. Timothie. 6.9. The loue of moneye is the roote of all euill, which whilest some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and pearced themselues through with ma• •w•.
Un•st dealing indeed, is in beginning, or out