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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 affirmative part.Chapter 28 › The affirmatiue parte.
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.
III. To interpret a doubtful evil, to the better part. 1. Cor. 13.5. Love thinketh not evil. verse 7. It believeth all things, it hopeth all things. Gene. 37.31. And they took Josephs coat, and killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood. Verse. 32. So they sent that particoloured coat, and they brought it to their Father, and said, This have we found, see now, whether it be thy sons coat or no. ver. 33. Then he knew it, and said, It is my sons coat, a wicked beast hath devoured him, Joseph is surely torn in pieces.
III. To interprete a doubtfull euill, to the better parte. 1. Cor. 13.5. Loue thinketh not euill. verse 7. Jt beleeueth all things, it hopeth all things. Gene. 37.31. And they tooke Iosephs coate, and killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coate in the blood. Verse. 32. So they sent that particoloured coate, and they brought it to their Father, and said, This haue we found, see now, whether it be thy sonnes coat or no. ver. 33. Then he knew it, and saide, Jt is my sonnes coate, a wicked beast hath deuoured him, Joseph is surely torne in peeces.
IIII. Not to believe an evil report, running abroad amongst the common people, by the whisperings of tale bearers, as it were, by the Conduit pipes. Psal. 15.3. He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doth evil to his neighbour, nor receiveth a false report against his neighbour. Jere. 40.14. And they said unto ⟨image 103⟩him, Knowest thou not, that Baalis the King of the Ammonites, had sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, to stay thee? but Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, believed him not. ver. 16. But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, said unto Johanan the son of Kareah. Thou shalt not do this thing, for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael. But we ought also to be angry at such whisperings.