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Ten Commandments
6th Commandment ⇐ ⇒ 8th Commandment
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“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
Ex. 20:14
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Order of Contents
Articles 14+
Historical 2
Latin 3
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Articles
1500’s
Bullinger, Henry – 10th Sermon, ‘Of the 3rd Precept of the 2nd Table… ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery of wedlock;’ Against all intemperance; of Continency’ in The Decades ed. Thomas Harding (1549; Cambridge: Parker Society, 1849), vol. 1, 2nd Decade, pp. 393-435
Bucer, Martin – ch. 55, ‘The Ninth Law: Controlling Luxury & Harmful Expenses’ in On the Reign of Christ tr. Satre & Pauck in Melanchthon & Bucer in The Library of Christian Classics, vol. 19 (1550; 1557; London: SCM Press LTD, 1969), bk. 2, pp. 354-57
Calvin, John – 7th Commandment in Institutes of the Christian Religion tr. Henry Beveridge (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 1, bk. 2, pp. 471-75
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – The Common Places… (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 2
10. ‘The Seventh Precept: of Not Committing Adultery’ 418
‘Of Matrimony & Concubines’ 418
‘Of Polygamy’ 420
‘Of Barrenness’ 430
‘Whether it be lawful for children to marry without the consent of their parents’ 431
‘Of Rapine, or violent taking away’ 437
‘Whether Marriage be lawful in persons of sundry religions’ 442
‘Of Degrees forbidden in marriage’ 447
‘Whether any Dispensation may be made in the degrees of kindred prohibited by God’ 453
‘Of Dowries’ 454
‘Of Divorcements’ 457
‘Whether Matrimony be a Sacrament’ 462
11. ‘Of Whoredom, Fornication & Adultery’ 468
‘Of Bastards’ 475
‘Of Adultery’ 478
‘Of Idleness & other enticements unto wickedness’ 479
‘Of the Punishments of Adultery’ 482
‘Whether the man or woman do sin more grievously in adultery’ 489
‘Of Reconciliation of man and wife after adultery committed’ 495
‘Of Wine & Drunkenness’ 497
‘Of Dances’ 503
‘Of Garments & Apparel’ 506
‘Of Counterfeit & False Coloring’ 507
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
7th Commandment 83.a
A consideration of wedlock 83.a
Pureness of Life required by this precept 83.a
Bachelors and widowers 83.a
Wedlock the fountain of man’s life 83.a
This precept defends not whoredom 83.b
What is adultery 83.b
Peter Lombard 83.b
How great care God has of wedlock 84.a
Contemners & Defilers of matrimony 84.a
Heb. 13 84.a
There is no specification set 84.b
The corruption of our flesh 84.b
This law was given to the circumcised people 85.a
Of the transgressions of this law 85.a
Of the transgression of the law we must judge according to the mind of the lawgiver 85.a
1 Thess. 4 85.a
Men do sin by work, word and signs and heart 85.a
With the married 85.a
Lev. 18 85.a
Lev. 20 85.b
With a virgin 85.b
With violence and ravishment, Gen. 34; 2 Sam. 13 85.b
The sole man with the sole woman 85.b
Against pasture (sodomy) 85.b
Of signs and words 85.b
Not only the act, but the will and endeavor also of adultery is forbidden 86.a
The concupiscence of the heart 86.a
Difference to be made between the judgment of God and the judgment of man 86.a
An admonition 86.b
Of the causes of adultery, and all kind of uncleanness 86.b
The first cause is the universal corruption of our flesh, Rom. 7 86.b
The secondary causes 87.a
The stirring up 87.a
Touching 87.a
Filthy reasoning 87.b
Impunity 87.b
Occasion 87.b
Of the grievousness of whoredom and adultery 87.b
The general and special griefs 87.b
To offend against the tables of the Covenant: a Similitude 88.a
The weight by circumstances 88.a
Of the evil of whoredom and adultery 88.a
A common evil which excludes men out of the kingdom of God, 1 Cor. 6 88.a
The fountain of our nature is defiled 88.a
Public honesty is distained 88.a
They do sin against their own bodies, 1 Cor. 6; 1 Thess. 4 88.b
Man is besotted 88.b
A continual desire of sin grafted in them 88.b
A man is made light and unprofitable 88.b
They fall into great dangers, Prov. 6-7 88.b
Two persons are wrapped in sin 89.a
How much evil is done peculiarly to Christian men, 1 Cor. 6 89.a
Of the punishment of forbidden lusts, whoredom, deflowering, incest, ravishment, adultery, sodomy and beastish meddling 89.b
We must not only hear the precepts, but also the penalties 89.b
Two kinds of penalties of sin 89.b
Penalties of adulterers, Lev. 20; Dt. 22; Lex Julia 89.b
Christian princes have weakened the law of adulterers 89.b
Of the penalty of incest 90.a
Of deflowerers of maids, Dt. 22 90.a
Of ravishers 90.a
Of them that sin against nature, Lev. 20 90.a
Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587)
1. What Marriage is
2. What are the causes of marriage
3. Whether marriage be a thing indifferent
4. What are the duties of married persons
5. What things are contrary to matrimony
Finch, Henry – 9. Of Chastity in The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity gathered out of the Word of God… (Middelburg: 1589), bk. 2
Finch (d. 1625) was an English lawyer and politician.
Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – 36. ‘Upon the Seventh 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. 89-92
Virel, Matthew – 7th 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 – 26. 7th Commandment in A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
Ames, William – ch. 19, ‘Chastity’ in The Marrow of Theology tr. John D. Eusden (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 2, pp. 317-21
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 – 11. ‘The Virtues and Works Connected with the Seventh 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. 238-46
Wolleb (1589–1629) was a Swiss reformed theologian. He was a student of Amandus Polanus.
Leigh, Edward – ch. 8, The Seventh Commandment in A System or Body of Divinity… (London, A.M., 1654), bk. 9, pp. 749-57
Turretin, Francis – 18. ‘What is forbidden and what is enjoined by the precept concerning not committing adultery?’ in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 11th Topic, p. 120 ff.
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Historical
On Geneva
Books
Kingdon, Robert M. – Adultery & Divorce in Calvin’s Geneva in Harvard Historical Studies (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995) 224 pp. ToC
eds. Kingdon, Robert M. & John Witte Jr. – Sex, Marriage & Family Life in John Calvin’s Geneva: Courtship, Engagement & Marriage in Religion, Marriage & Family Series Pre (Eerdmans, 2005) 545 pp. ToC
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Latin Articles
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert
7th Commandment in Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 1 Abbr.
Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht, 1659 / 1667)
vol. 3
88. ‘On Idle Words & Deeds’, pp. 1215-19 [Irregular Numbering]
92. Short Appendix: ‘On Cups of Health & Every Good’ in Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht, 1659), vol. 3, pp. 1219-27
This is on a then-cultural rite to drink to the health and every good of the king, or magistrate, etc. and relates to lawful drinking and drunkenness.
100. ‘On the Fortieth [Lent] & Bacchanalian Festivals’, pp. 1383-91
vol. 4
23. ‘On the Vanities [Excelsis] of the World, on the Seventh Commandment of the Decalogue, First, of Dances’ 325
24. Second, ‘Of Comedies’ 356
25. Another Part 367
26. Third: ‘On Abuses in Food & Feasts’ 385
27. Fourth: ‘On Luxury & Vanity in Clothes, Houses & Goods’ 403
28. pt. 2 417
29. Fifth: ‘On the Decoration of the Face & Hair’ 429
30. pt. 2 444
31. pt. 3 453-93
32. Of Intoxication 493
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50. ‘A Syllabus of Questions on the Whole Decalogue’, 7th Commandment
23. ‘On the Vanities [Excelsis] of the World, on the Seventh Commandment of the Decalogue, First, of Dances’ 325
24. Second, ‘Of Comedies’ 356
25. Another Part 367
26. Third: ‘On Abuses in Food & Feasts’ 385
27. Fourth: ‘On Luxury & Vanity in Clothes, Houses & Goods’ 403
28. pt. 2 417
29. Fifth: ‘On the Decoration of the Face & Hair’ 429
30. pt. 2 444
31. pt. 3 453-93
32. Of Intoxication 493
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