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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
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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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