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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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