On Hope, Joy & Patience

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Order of Contents

Articles  7+
Book  1
Latin  4+

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Articles

1500’s

Melanchthon, Philip – 19. ‘On Love & Hope’  in The Loci Communes of Philip Melanchthon…  tr. Charles L. Hill  (1521; Boston: Meador Publishing, 1944), pp. 204-15

Though Melanchthon (1497–1560) was a Lutheran, this work of his was the first ‘systematic theology’ of the Reformation, and, as it was very influential on reformed systematic theologies following shortly thereafter.

Hamilton, Patrick – ‘Of Hope’  in Patrick’s Places…  (d. 1528; London: White, 1598)

Hamilton (1504–1528) was a proto-reformer and martyr in Scotland.

Calvin, John – 21. ‘What Hope is’  in Instruction in Faith (1537)  tr. Paul T. Fuhrman  (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1949), pp. 55-56

Vermigli, Peter Martyr – ‘The Description of Christian Hope’  in The Common Places…  (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 3, ch. 3, ‘Of Faith and the Certainty thereof; and how faith may agree with fear’, pp. 82-89

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

‘Hope’  456.b

What hope is  457.a
From whence the hope of Christian men comes  457.b
Whereof hope is nourished and confirmed  458.a
What the virtue of hope is  459.a
What true hope is able to do with God in this life  460.a

‘Of Patience’  521.b

What patience is  522.b
Which be the parts of patience  522.a
How many sorts of patience there be  522.b
How many sorts there be of the patience of man  523.a
Places of holy Scripture by which patience is commended unto us  524.a
Examples of patience  524.b
How far forth patience ought to be kept  526.a
What is the use of patience  527.a

‘Of Impatiency’  528.b

Zanchi, Girolamo – Confession of the Christian Religion…  (1586; Cambridge, 1599), pp. 136-41 & 326-27

ch. 17, ’Of Faith, Hope & Charity’
.       On Aphorism 1
.       On Aphorism 2

Ursinus, Zachary – 4. How Faith & Hope Differ & Agree  in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered…  in his Lectures upon the Catechism…  tr. Henrie Parrie  (Oxford, 1587)

Rollock, Robert – 32. ‘Hope’  in A Treatise of Effectual Calling  (1603)  in Select Works of Robert Rollock…  (d. 1599; Edinburgh, 1849), vol. 1, pp. 222-34

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1600’s

Burges, Cornelius – ch. 6, ‘Of Patience’  in A Chain of Graces: Drawn out at length for Reformation of Manners…  (London: 1622), pp. 113-57

Ames, William – ch. 6, ‘Hope’  in The Marrow of Theology  tr. John D. Eusden  (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 2, pp. 245-50

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.

Leigh, Edward – A System or Body of Divinity…  (London, A.M., 1654), bk. 7

24. ‘Of Hope & Fear. I. Of Hope’, pp. 568-70
‘Patience’, pp. 597-99  of 29. ‘Some Special Graces Deciphered’

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Book

Early Church

Augustine

Enchiridion: On Faith, Hope & Love  in NPNF, vol. 3.

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Latin Articles

1500’s

Polanus a Polansdorf, Amandus

The Divisions of Theology Framed according to a Natural Orderly Method  (Basil, 1590; Geneva, 1623), bk. 2, ‘Of Good Works’

‘Hope in God’  279-80
‘Of Patience’  285

A System of Theology  (Hanau, 1609; 1615), vol. 2, bk. 9, True Religion, Christian Graces

ch. 9, ‘Of Hope in God’  3842-51
ch. 13, ‘Of Patience’  3895-99

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1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – Select Theological Disputations, vol. 4  (Utrecht, 1667), 50. ‘A Syllabus of Questions on the Decalogue’, ‘On the 1st Commandment’

‘Of hope & despair’, p. 775
‘On delight & joy’, p. 776
‘On patience and its opposites, namely impatience and murmuring’, p. 777
‘On joy and a good-mood’, p. 823

van Mastricht, Petrus – Prologue & The Idea of Moral Theology, bk. 2, ‘Of Religion’  in Theoretical & Practical Theology  (Utrecht, 1724)

bk. 1, ch. 15. ‘Of Patience & Impatience’  1215-16
bk. 2, ch. 4. ‘Of Hope & Desperation’  1223-24

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