A09353:697
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.
Unjust dealing out of bargaining, is likewise manifold. I. To pronounce false sentence or judgement for a reward, either proffered, or promised. Isay. 1.2.3. Thy princes are religious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the meadows cause come before them. This is the Lawyers and Judges sin. II. To feed, or cloth stout and lusty rogues or beggars. 2. Thess. 3.10. When we were with you, we en•yned you this, that if an• would not labour, the same should not eat.
Vniust dealing out of bargaining, is likewise manifolde. I. To pronounce false sentence or iudgement for a reward, either proffered, or promised. Isay. 1.2.3. Thy princes are religious, and companions of theeues: euerie one loueth giftes, and followeth after rewardes: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither dooth the medowes cause come before them. This is the Lawyers and Iudges sinne. II. To feede, or cloth stout and lustie rogues or beggers. 2. Thess. 3.10. When we were with you, wee en•yned you this, that if an• would not labour, the same should not eate.
What then, think you, must those licensed rogues, and beggars by authority, I mean, all idle Monks, and Abby-lubbers have? Socrates in the Tripartite history, saith plainly, that that Monk which laboureth not with his hands, is no better then a thieves. III. Gaming for money and gain. For thou mayest not enrich thy self by impoverishing thy brother. This gaming is worse far then usury, and in a short while will more enrich a man. IIII. To get money by unlawful arts: such are Magic, Judicial Astrology, Stage plays, and such like.