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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.
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. Thou shalt not walk about with tales among thy people, thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord. 1. Tim. 5.13. And ⟨image 101⟩likewise also being idle, they learn to go above from house to house: yea, they are not only idle, but also prailers and busy-bodies, speaking things which are not comely. To spread abroad flying tales, or to feign and add any thing unto them. Prou. 26.20. Without wood the fire is quenched, and without a talebearer strife ceaseth. 21. As a coal maketh burning coals, and wood a fire, so the contentious man is apt to kindle strife. 22. The words of a talebearer are as flatterings, and they go down into the bowels of the belly. 2. Cor. 12.20. For I fear least when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that J shall be found to you such as I would not, and least the• be strife, envying, wrath, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and discord among you. To receive or believe those tales which we hear of others. Exod. 23.1. Thou shalt not receive a false tale, neither shalt thou put thine hand with the wicked, to be a false witness. 1. Sa. 24.10. And David said to Saul, wherefore givest thou an ear to mens words, that say, Behold, David speaketh evil against thee?
V. Openly to raise forged and hurtfull tales and reportes of our neighbour, or priuily to deuise the same. Rom. 1.29. Whisperers, 30. Backbiters, haters of God, proud, boasters, inuenters of euill thinges.