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“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”

Ex. 20:17

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Order of Contents

Articles  10+
Book  1
Latin  1


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Articles

1500’s

Calvin, John – 10th Commandment  in Institutes of the Christian Religion  tr. Henry Beveridge  (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 1, bk. 2, pp. 481-92

Vermigli, Peter Martyr – The Common Places…  (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 2

14. ‘The Last Precept: against Lusting’  551

‘Of the Comparison between Sins’  553
‘Of Charity, which is the fulfilling of the law’  556
‘Of Salutations’  560
‘Whether the commandment of loving God with all the heart, etc. may be kept in this life’  562
‘Whether the first motions should be accounted sins’  565
‘Whether by rewards we ought to be moved to the obedience of God’  573

Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion  (1560; London, 1563)

10th Commandment  103.a

How this precept is joined unto them before  103.a
Specification  103.a
1. What concupiscence is 103.a
The strength of concupiscence  103.a
The contrary unto concupiscence  103.b
The nature of concupiscence  103.b
2. How many sorts of concupiscences there be 103.b
Concupiscence before sin  103.b
The affects of concupiscence are of two sorts  103.b
Whereof the corruption of our concupiscence is  103.b
We must mark in us the work of God and the work of Satan  103.b
The cause of the natural affections in us  103.b
To desire no thing belongs to the dead and not to the living  104.a
3. What kind of concupiscence is forbidden 104.a
The concupiscence of the spirit is not forbidden, Gal. 5  104.a
Nor natural concupiscence is forbidden  104.a
The concupiscence of the corrupt flesh is forbidden  104.b
Josh. 7; Dt. 7  104.b
4. Of the motions of naughty concupiscence 104.b
By what means the naughty concupiscence is moved  104.b
The natural senses  104.b
Concupiscence is stirred by thought only  104.b
Ps. 119  105.a
The loathsomeness of honest and lawful things  105.a
5. Of the naughtiness and malice of inordinate desire 105.a
Evil concupiscence placed within, even in the affections of our hearts  105.a
Concupiscence is the minister of sin  105.a
Rom. 6  105.b
Concupiscence blinds  105.b
Concupiscence does choke the Word of God in the heart, Mk. 4  105.b
Concupiscence does provoke the man altogether to sin  105.b
Concupiscence does torment the heart  105.b
Concupiscence is rather stirred up by law of justice than restrained,  Rom. 7  106.a
Concupiscence is not extinguished by age  106.a
Concupiscence is unsatiable  106.a
In what account this concupiscence is before God  106.a
How concupiscence alone is sin in the sight of God  106.a
Mt. 5, a similitude  106.a
If the desire is before god as the fact, what avails it to abstain form the doings?  Mt. 5;1 Cor. 6  106.b
Gen. 34; 2 Sam. 11  106.b
7. What things are to be considered in the words of this precept 106.b
Ex. 20; Dt. 5  106.b
Of the division of the Decalogue  106.b
Augustine, Question 7  106.b
Ex. 20  107.a
The Lawmaker applied Himself to the quality of his people  107.a
God does ascribe his goods unto us  107.b
The propriety of things is confirmed  107.b
That he says not any man’s house, but thy neighbor’s house  107.b
Neighbors ought to be loved for two respects  107.b
He does not make difference between neighbors  108.a
He makes no difference between our estates, Prov. 16  108.a
Whether that ignorance do excuse the desire of another man’s goods or no  108.b
Of the concupiscence of a [married] woman not known [to be such]  108.b
Whether we may buy that which we cannot covet  109.a
Naboth’s vineyard, 1 Kings 21  109.a
“Nor anything that is they neighbor’s”  109.b
The eyes be ministers of concupiscence, 2 Kings 20  109.b
We must chasten the unlawful concupiscence  110.a

Ursinus, Zachary – Tenth Commandment  in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered…  in his Lectures upon the Catechism…  tr. Henrie Parrie  (d. 1583; Oxford, 1587)

Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – 39. ‘Upon the Tenth Commandment’  in Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius…  (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), pp. 97-100

Virel, Matthew – 10th Commandment  in A Learned & Excellent Treatise Containing All the Principal Grounds of Christian Religion  (London, 1594), bk. 2, 1. Of Good Works, 1st Part, Exposition of the Moral Law

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1600’s

Perkins, William – 29. 10th Commandment  in A Golden Chain  (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)

Ames, William – ch. 22, ‘Contentment’  in The Marrow of Theology  tr. John D. Eusden  (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 2, pp. 328-33

Ames (1576-1633) was an English, puritan, congregationalist, minister, philosopher and controversialist.  He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the reformed and the Arminians.  Voet highly commended Ames’s Marrow for learning theology.

Wolleb, Johannes – 14. ‘The Virtues and Works Connected with the Tenth Commandment’  in Abridgment of Christian Divinity  (1626) in ed. John Beardslee, Reformed Dogmatics: J. Wollebius, G. Voetius & F. Turretin  (Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), bk. 2, pp. 257-62

Wolleb (1589–1629) was a Swiss reformed theologian.  He was a student of Amandus Polanus.

Leigh, Edward – A System or Body of Divinity…  (London, A.M., 1654)

pp. 349-51  of ch. 16. ‘Of Carnal Confidence, Covetousness…’, pp. 348-52

bk. 9, ch. 11, The Tenth Commandment, pp. 749-57

Turretin, Francis – 21. ‘What concupiscence is prohibited by the tenth precept?  Are the incipient motions sins?  We affirm.’  in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr.  (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 11th Topic, p. 134 ff.


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Book

1600’s

Perkins, William – The Reformation of Covetousness, written upon Mt. 6:19 to the end  (London: Creede, 1603)  263 pp.  ToC


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Latin

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – Select Theological Disputations, vol. 4  (Utrecht, 1667), 50. ‘A Syllabus of Questions on the Whole Decalogue’, 10th Commandment

On riches  823
On joy and a good-mood  823
On inherent and actual concupiscence  824
On sloth, prying into and solicitude  824
On self-love and gladness over another’s misfortune  824

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