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Subsections
Revealed Will
Ethics
Expositions of 10 Commandments
1st Commandment
Natural Worship
How Far Human Laws Bind
Reformed vs. Aquinas
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Order of Contents
Articles 4
Quotes 2
Latin 2
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Articles
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Bullinger, Henry – 5th Sermon, ‘Of Adoring or Worshipping, of Invocating or Calling upon, and of serving the only, living, true and everlasting God; also of true and false religion’ in The Decades ed. Thomas Harding (1549; Cambridge: Parker Society, 1850), vol. 3, 4th Decade, pp. 194-38
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – ‘Whether by rewards we ought to be moved to the obedience of God’ in The Common Places… (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 2, ‘The Last Precept’, pp. 573-75
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
‘Of Obedience’ 478.a
That it is needful to use discretion in the matter of obedience 478.b
What obedience is 478.b
How many kinds of obedience there be 479.a
Of false obedience 481.b
How necessary obedience is, and what is the efficacy thereof, and how great a good it is 482.b
Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction… (London: Veale, 1573),
The Sum of the Principal Points of the Christian Faith
29. Of the Principal Points contained in the Holy Scriptures, which do Summarily comprehend all that which is required in the true service of God 29
30. Of the True Service of God which is spiritual 30
32. Of the Obedience that all men do owe to the ministry of the Gospel: and of those which do despise it, and of the protestation and profession of the Christian doctrine, whereunto everyone is bound 32-33
The Summary of the Christian Doctrine, set forth in Form of Dialogue & of Catechism
A Familiar Exposition of the Principal Points of the Catechism, and of the Christian Doctrine, made in Form of Dialogue
1st Dialogue: Of the True Service of God, & of Good Intents
Of the Chief Felicity of Man, & of the End for the which he was Created of God
Of the True Honor & Service of God
Of the Sum of all the Doctrine contained in the Holy Scriptures
Of the Law of God, & of the Office of the Same
Of the Gospel, & of its Office
Of the Difference that is to be considered between the Law & the Gospel
Of the Covenant & Agreement of the Law and the Gospel
Of the Cause for the which God would Himself declare his will unto man by his Word
Of the Good Intents of Men that are not Governed by the Word of God
Of the Service of God according to the Traditions of men
Of the Difference of the true and false faith
Of the Assurance of the Conscience by the Word of God, and what commodity comes thereby to man
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Perkins, William
Ch. 4, How God is to be conceived in our minds when we perform any service or worship unto Him? in The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience… (d. 1602; Cambridge: Legat, 1606), bk. 2
The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience… (Cambridge: Legat, 1606), bk. 2, Ch. 5, How God is to be worshipped and served
Sect. 1, Adoration of God
Sect. 2, Cleaving to God
Ames, William – ch. 1, ‘Observance in General’ in The Marrow of Theology tr. John D. Eusden (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 2, pp. 219-224
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.
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Quotes
1600’s
Amandus Polanus
‘Analytical Theses on Colossians, containing the Exordium of the Epistle’, pt. 1 (on Col. 1:1-11) $3 Download tr. Jonathan Tomes (Basel: Johannes Schroeter, 1601)
“XL. Holy obedience is to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
XLI. This life is like a journey that we must walk, always mindful that we are here as travelers, far from the Lord, and striving toward our homeland.
XLII. Those who walk in a manner worthy of the Lord are those who, throughout the course of their lives, follow the will and guidance of God, denying their own desires and the dictates of the flesh, as befits children of the heavenly Father and imitators of God.”
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Johannes Hoornbeek
‘Theological Disputation on the Satisfaction of Christ’ tr. by AI by Onku (Utrecht, 1650) Latin
“God as the supreme Lord has true right over the actions of all men, both internal and external, that they may serve his glory and obedience be rendered to him in all things (Luke 17:10), which obedience moreover he as ruler has commanded and sanctioned under the gravest threats (Gen 2:17, Deut 27:26). When man violates this right and denies this obedience to God, he commits two things: 1) he does not acknowledge the lordship of his master over himself, 2) he despises him, even by disdaining his laws before his sight, who pays heed to all the ways of men.
Hence this wickedness is so great that none greater can be given; by it man turns away from the infinite good, and consequently merits for himself the privation of the highest good; whence he has been handed over by his Lord, whose obedience he refused, into servitude to the Devil and his servants, that he may be tormented by them in [God’s] name and experience the gravity of the lordship he despised (Jude 5-6).”
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Latin
1600’s
Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich – ch. 4, ‘Of Obedience to God’ in Christian Theology (Hanau, 1634; 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1657), bk. 2, ‘Of the Worship of God’, pp. 661-718
Voet, Gisbert – ‘On obedience and its opposites’ in Select Theological Disputations, vol. 4 (Utrecht, 1667), 50. ‘A Syllabus of Questions on the Decalogue’, ‘On the 1st Commandment’, p. 777
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