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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 affirmative part.Chapter 27 › The affirmatiue part.
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.
The affirmative part.
The affirmatiue part.
Thou shalt preserve and increase thy neighbours goods. To this are required these that follow.
Thou shalt preserue and increase thy neighbors goods. To this are required these that follow.
I. A certain calling: wherein every man, according to that gift which God hath given him, must bestow himself honestly, to his own, and neighbours good. 1. Corinth. 7.24. Let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God. Eph. 4.28. 1. Pet. 4.10. According as every man hath received ⟨image 96⟩a gift, so let him administer to another, that ye may be good dispensers of the manifold graces of God. Gal. 5.13. In love serve one an other.
I. A certaine calling: wherein euery man, according to that gift which God hath giuen him, must bestow himselfe honestly, to his owne, and neighbours good. 1. Corinth. 7.24. Let euery man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.