On Self-Denial, Mortification of Sin & Bearing the Cross

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Order of Contents

Articles  4+
Books  2
Latin  2

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Articles

1500’s

Bullinger, Henry – 3rd Sermon, ‘Of the patient bearing and abiding of sundry calamities and miseries; and also of the hope and manifold consolation of the faithful’  in The Decades  ed. Thomas Harding  (Cambridge: Parker Society, 1850), vol. 2, 3rd Decade, pp. 64-111

Melanchthon, Philip – 32. ‘Of Bearing Tribulation & the Cross’  in Melanchthon on Christian Doctrine, Loci Communes, 1555  tr. Clyde L. Manschreck  (1555; NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), pp. 286-96

Calvin, John – Institutes of the Christian Religion  tr. Henry Beveridge  (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 2, bk. 3

7. ‘A Summary of the Christian Life.  Of Self-Denial’  259
8. ‘Of Bearing the Cross—one branch of Self-Denial’  273
9. ‘Of Meditating on the Future Life’  285

Vermigli, Peter Martyr – The Common Places…  (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 3, ch. 12, ‘Of Liberality & Magnificence’

‘Of Fortitude, Mortification, Enduring the Cross & Affliction’  270

‘Whether the holy men were inferior to the ethnics in abiding adversities and in repressing affections’  296

Becon, Thomas – 13. ‘Of the Cross’  in Prayers & Other Pieces by Thomas Becon  (Cambridge: Parker Society, 1844), pp. 344-50

Becon (c. 1511-1567) was an Anglican reformer, clergyman and a chaplain to Thomas Cranmer.  He was initially significantly influenced by Luther, and then Zwingli.

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1600’s

Rutherford, Samuel – Assertions 1-5, pp. 508-19  in Christ Dying & Drawing Sinners to Himself…  (London: 1647)

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

12. ‘The Parts of Sanctification are Two: Mortification & Vivification.  I. Mortification’, pp. 535-37

‘Self-Denial’, pp. 600-602  in 29. ‘Some Special Graces Deciphered’


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Books

1600’s

Love, Christopher

The Combat between the Flesh & Spirit: As also the woeful Withdrawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in & after the Spirit, together with the blessednesse thereof. Being the sum and substance of 27 Sermons…  (London: 1654)  291 pp.  Index

The Mortified Christian, showing the nature, signs, necessity and difficulty of true mortification; Resolving diverse cases about secret and bosome sins. With a discovery of sincerity and special helps against men’s special corruptions  (London: 1654)  Index

Owen, John – The Mortification of Sin


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Latin

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert

(3) Of the Cross of the Pious  in Syllabus of Theological Problems  (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 1, tract 4   Abbr.

‘On Self-Abnegation, Resignation, Mortification & Hatred of Oneself’  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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