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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 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.
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. Ephes. 4.28. Let him that hath stolen, steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his own hands the thing that is good, that he may give unto him that hath need. Deut. 18.11. Eph. 5.3. 1. Thess. 5.22. Abstain from all appearance of evil. V. To such and pilfer the least pin, or point from an other. Mar. ⟨image 95⟩10.19. Thou shalt not stole, thou shalt not hurt any m•n. Rom. 3.8. And (as we are blamed, and as some affirm that we say,) why do we not evil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is just. VI. To remove ancient bounds. Prou. 22.28. Thou shalt not remove the ancient bounds, which thy father have made. Hose 5.8. The Princes of Judah are like them which remove the bounds. VII. To steal other mens servants, or children, to commit sacrilege, or robbery. 1. Tim. 1.10. To whoremongers, buggerers, and menstealers. Josh. 7.19. Achans theft.