On Poverty & Riches

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Order of Contents

Poverty  7
Riches  1
Latin  1


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On Poverty

Articles

1500’s

Musculus, Wolfgang – ‘Of willful poverty’  in Common Places of the Christian Religion  (1560; London, 1563), ‘Vows’, fol. 505a

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1600’s

Du Moulin, Pierre – 10th Demand, ‘That Priests & Monks may break the Vows of Obedience, Poverty & Chastity that they have made to God’  in Father Cotton a Jesuite, the King’s Confessor, his Two & Thirty Demands to the [Reformed] Ministers of France, with the Answers…  (London: 1614), pp. 11-12

Du Moulin (1568-1658) was a Huguenot minister in France who also resided in England for some years.

Corbet, John – §14. ‘The nature of Monastic Vows of Obedience, Poverty & Chastity Considered’  in ‘Of Divine Worship, in Three Parts’  in The Remains of the Reverend & Learned Mr. John Corbet…  (London: Parkhurst, 1684), pt. 1, pp. 181-82

Corbet (1620-1680) was a congregationalist puritan who was ejected in 1662.

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Quote

1600’s

Thomas Cartwright

Confutation of the Rhemists’ Notes, Glosses & Annotations on the New Testament…  (d. 1603; [Leiden] 1618), on Mt. 3:1, pp. 9-11

“It was no marvel therefore, although Chrysostom and others did fall sometimes into the commendation of the monkish and hermetic life.  But their hermits and monks are so unlike the pope’s creatures…  1. For first…

4. Fourthly, there was permitted unto them care of wives, of family, and private possession, so that the same were moderate and not against the care of the soul: contrary to your laws, which thrust upon them the vow of wilful poverty.”

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Latin Articles

1600’s

Scharp, John – 6. ‘Of Monastics’  in A Course of Theology, in which All the Dogmas & Controversies of Faith Agitated in this Generation Between Us & Papists are Handled one by one and the Arguments of Bellarmine are Responded to  (Geneva, 1620), vol. 2, pp. 440-87

3. Whether voluntary poverty is able rightly to be vowed to God?  471
.      Objections  472-75

Voet, Gisbert – ‘On riches and poverty’  in Select Theological Disputations, vol. 4  (Utrecht, 1667), 50. ‘A Syllabus of Questions on the Whole Decalogue’, p. 809

Schaller, Jacob – Disputation 10 of the 5th Exercise on Bellarmine, bk. 2, ‘Of Monastics,’ ch. 46, 3rd Argument, on the Poverty of Monastics, due to that Communion  (Strassburg, Germany, 1660)  11 pp.

Schaller (1604-1676) was a Lutheran professor of practical philosophy at Strassburg, Germany.


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On Riches

Article

1500’s

Ursinus, Zachary – 7. Whether it be lawful to desire riches  in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered…  in his Lectures upon the Catechism…  tr. Henrie Parrie  (Oxford, 1587), Lord’s Prayer, 4th Petition


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Latin Articles

1600’s

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

On the dominion of things  809
On riches and poverty  809
On acquiring dominion in general, and its opposites  810
On the first occupation, riverside soil and markers  810
On prescription and ownership by long possession  810
On gifting and heredity  811
Of avarice and care about temporal things  818
Of prodigality or lavishness  819
Of idleness, leisure and negligence  819
Of parsimony  819
On riches  823
On sloth, prying into and solicitude  824

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