On the 3rd Commandment

“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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Subsections

Oaths & Vows
Lots

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Order of Contents

Article  1

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Article

1600’s

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.

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Related Pages

Expositions of the Ten Commandments

1st Commandment

2nd Commandment

Lord’s Day