On Giving to the Needy & Afflicted, & of Alms

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Order of Contents

Articles  6
Book  1
Latin  2


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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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