On Observance of God’s Will & Obedience to Him

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Subsection

Revealed Will
Ethics
Expositions of 10 Commandments
1st Commandment
Natural Worship
How Far Human Laws Bind

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Order of Contents

Articles  3
Latin  2

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Articles

1500’s

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

Of the True Service of God

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 Human Traditions

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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1600’s

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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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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