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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 28 › The negative part.Chapter 28 › The negatiue 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.
II. Evil suspicions. 1. Tim. 6.4. 1. Sam. 17.28. And Elijah his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men, and Elijah was very angry with David, and said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the malice of thine hart. Act. 28.4. Now when the Barbarians saw the worm hang on his hand, they said among themselves, this man surely is a ⟨image 100⟩murderer, whom though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance hath not suffered to live. Here are condemned, hard censures and sinister judgements against our neighbour. Mat. 7.1. Judge not, that ye be not judged: v. 2. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: & with what measure ye meat, it shall be measured to you again. These judgements which Christ forbiddeth, are private and reproachful or slanderous judgements: namely, when either a good or an indifferent action is interpreted to the worse part: or when a light offence is made heinous thorough evil will, without all desire either to amend, or covet the same. Act. 2.13. And others mocked, and said, they are full of new wine. 14. But Peter standing with the eleven, lift up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that inhabit Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken unto my words. 15. For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, since it is but the third hour of the day. 1. Sam. 1.13. For Hannah spake in her heart, her lips did move only, but her voice was not heard, therefore Else thought that she had been drunken. But we must know, that there are three kinds of Judgements, which are not forbidden by this commandment of Christ. The first is, the ministry of the Gospel, which judgeth and reproveth sin. The second is, the judgement of the Magistrate. The third is, the judgement of a friend admonishing us: as when he saith, Abstain from the company of such a man, for I know him to be a drunkard.