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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.
IIII. To pronounce unjust sentence in judgement, to rest in one witness, to accuse another wrongfully, to bewray a mans cause by collusion. 1. King. chap. 21. ver. 12. They proclaimed a fast, and set Nabaoth among the chief of the people. v. 13. And there came two wicked men, and sate before him, and the wicked men witnessed against Nabaoth in the presence of the people, saying, Nabaoth did blaspheme God and the King: then they carried him away out of the city, and stoned him with stones that he died. Deut. 17.6. At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he, that is worthy of death, die: but at the mouth of one witness he shall not die.
IIII. To pronounce vniust sentence in iudgement, to rest in one witnesse, to accuse another wrongfully, to bewray a mans cause by collusion. 1. King. chap. 21. ver. 12. They proclaymed a fast, and set Nabaoth among the chiefe of the people. v. 13. And there came two wicked men, and sate before him, and the wicked men witnessed against Nabaoth in the presence of the people, saying, Nabaoth did blaspheme God and the King: then they carried him away out of the citie, and stoned him with stones that he died. Deut. 17.6. At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he, that is worthie of death, die: but at the mouth of one witnes he shall not die.
V. Openly to raise forged and hurtful tales and reports of our neighbour, or privily to devise the same. Rom. 1.29. Whisperers, 30. Backbiters, haters of God, proud, boasters, inventers of evil things. Leviticus 19.16