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Order of Contents
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Articles
200’s
Cyrpian of Carthage – Treatise 8, “Of Works & Alms” in ANF 5.476-84
Cyprian (c. 210 – 258) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent.
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1500’s
Bucer, Martin – 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. 1, ch. 14, ‘Care for the Needy’ 256-59
bk. 2, ch. 14, ‘The Sixth Law: Poor Relief’ 306-15
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – ‘Of Well-Doing & Hospitality’ in The Common Places… (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 2, ch. 12. ‘The Eight Precept’, pp. 518-23
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1600’s
Perkins, William
47. Of Edification & Alms among the faithful in A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience… (d. 1602; Cambridge: Legat, 1606), bk. 3
Ch. 5, Of Liberality
Section 1
Question 1, Who or what persons must give alms?
Question 2, To whom must alms be given?
Question 3, How much relief must every man give?
Question 4, How many ways is a man to give alms?
Question 5, How should alms be given that they may be good works and pleasing unto God?
Section 2, The Fruit of the Remedy [in giving Alms]: ‘And all things shall be clean unto you’
Alsted, Johann H. – 5. ‘Of Good Works in Specific: Alms’ in Polemical Theology, exhibiting the Principal Eternal Things of Religion in Navigating Controversies, pt. 2, 4-6 (Partial) tr. by AI by Onku (Hanau, 1620; 1627), pt. 4, pp. 91-92 Latin
Thysius, Anthony – 37. ‘On Almsgiving & Fasting’ in Synopsis of a Purer Theology: Latin Text & English Translation Buy (1625; Brill, 2016), vol. 2, pp. 442-82
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Book
1500’s
Bucer, Martin – A Treatise, how by the Word of God, Christian Men’s Alms Ought to be Distributed (1557?) 29 pp. ToC
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Latin
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert
‘On Alms’ in 50. ‘On the Ten Commandments’, Prologue to the 2nd Table in Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht, 1648-1667), vol. 4, p. 790
Ecclesiastical Politics (Amsterdam: Waesberge, 1663), vol. 1, pt. 1, bk. 2, tract 3
5. Of Practices which Ought to be Observed for Closer Love, that is, Alms, Hospitality and Love Feasts 929
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