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“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”
Ex. 20:7
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Order of Contents
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Articles
1500’s
Bullinger, Henry – 3rd Sermon, ‘Of the 3rd Precept of the Ten Commandments, & of Swearing’ in The Decades ed. Thomas Harding (1549; Cambridge: Parker Society, 1849), vol. 1, 2nd Decade, pp. 237-53
Calvin, John – 3rd Commandment in Institutes of the Christian Religion tr. Henry Beveridge (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 1, bk. 2, ch. 8, pp. 452-59
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – 6. ‘The Third Precept: of Sanctification of the Name of God and Generally of Oaths’ in The Common Places… (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 2, pp. 368-74
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
3rd Commandment 45.a
The less sins be forbidden to the intent we should abstain from the greater 56.a
The abuse of oaths 56.a
The calling of counsels 56.b
The name of God is contemned when his Word is negligently heard 57.b
Ursinus, Zachary
The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587)
1. What an Oath is
2. By whom we must swear
3. Of what things we are to swear
4. Whether all oaths are to be kept
5. Whether a Christian may take a right and lawful oath
The Objections of the Papists which use invocation and prayer, unto the Saints departed
20. Of the Six First Commandments in Rules & Axioms of Certain Chief Points of Christianity in A Collection of Certain Learned Discourses… (Oxford, 1600)
Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius… (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591)
31. ‘Upon the Third Commandment’ 72-75
32. ‘Concerning Vows’ 75-78
Virel, Matthew – 3rd Commandment in A Learned & Excellent Treatise Containing All the Principal Grounds of Christian Religion (London, 1594), bk. 2, 1. Of Good Works, 1st Part
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1600’s
Perkins, William – 22. 3rd Commandment in A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
Ames, William – The Marrow of Theology tr. John D. Eusden (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 2
ch. 12, ‘Testing God’ pp. 275-78
ch. 14, ‘The Manner of Divine Worship’, pp. 283-87
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.
Wolleb, Johannes – Abridgment of Christian Divinity (1626) in ed. John Beardslee, Reformed Dogmatics: J. Wollebius, G. Voetius & F. Turretin (Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), bk. 2
4. ‘The Works Connected with the Second, Third & Fourth Commandments in General’, pp. 201-2
6. ‘The Virtues and Works Pertaining to the Third Commandment’, pp. 214-20
Leigh, Edward – A System or Body of Divinity… (London, A.M., 1654)
bk. 4, ch. 15, Of Some Particular Sins, & Especially of Ambition, Apostasy, Backsliding, Blasphemy, Boasting, Bribery, p. 339 ff.
bk. 9, ch. 4, Of the Third Commandment, pp. 749-57
Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 11th Topic
11. ‘Whether every oath so obliges the conscience that we are bound to keep it by an inevitable necessity. We distinguish.’ 66
12. ‘Whether it is lawful to use ambiguous equivocations and mental reservations in oaths. We deny against the papists and especially the Jesuits.’ 70
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Latin Articles
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert
3rd Commandment in Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 1 Abbr.
Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht, 1659)
vol. 3
86. ‘On Divination & Other Abuses of the Divine Name’, pp. 1,194-1201
87. ‘On Provocation to the Judgment of God’, pp. 1,201-15
88. ‘Idle Words & Deeds’, pp. 1215-19 [Irregular Numbering]
vol. 4, 50. ‘A Syllabus of Questions on the Whole Decalogue’, 3rd Commandment
On the use & abuse of the divine name in the reading, hearing and application of Scripture, in the perception of the sacraments and public and private prayers 783
On benedictions 784
On cursings, dreadful sayings, execrations & anathemas 784
On blasphemy 784
On an oath in general 785
On perjuries, perfidies, mental reservation, idle words & actions, & of a fearful oath 785
On the use & abuse of lots and of bets 786
Of vows 786
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