A09353:692
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. All coloured forgery and deceit in bargaining Luke •9.8. Zache• stood •h, and said •ot• the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor: and if I have taken ought fr•m many ma• by forged ca•lation, J restore it four •de. This deceit is used, I. when men sell that, which is counterfeit, for good: as copper for gold, and mingle any ways bad with good, making show only of the good. Amos. 8.4, 5, 6. Hear this, ye that swallow by the poor, saying, when will the new month be gone, &c. that we may fell the refuse of the wheat. II. When ⟨image 94⟩m•n falsify measures and weights. Deut, 25.13. Thou shalt not have in thy bag two manner of weights, a great and a small. 14. But thou shalt have a right […] a just weight: a perfect, and a just measure shalt thou have. Levit. 13.35. Ye shall not do unjustly in judgement, in line, in weight, or in measure. 36. Ye shall have just balances, true weights, a true Epha, and a true Him. Amos 8.4. Hear this, ye that say, when will the Sabbath be gone, that we may sell corn, and make the Epha small, and the shekel great, and falsify the weights by deceit.
II. All coloured forgery and deceite in bargaining Luke •9.8. Zache• stood •h, and saide •ot• the Lord, Behold, Lord, the halfe of my goods I giue to the poore: and if I haue taken ought frm many ma by forged calation, J restore it foure de. This deceite is vsed, I. when men sell that, which is counterfait, for good: as copper for gold, and mingle any waies bad with good, making shew onely of the good.