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4th Commandment ⇐ ⇒ 6th Commandment
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“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
Ex. 20:12
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Order of Contents
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Articles
1500’s
Bullinger, Henry – 5th Sermon, ‘Of the 1st Precept of the 2nd Table, which is in order the 5th of the Ten Commandments, touching the honor due to parents’ in The Decades ed. Thomas Harding (1549; Cambridge: Parker Society, 1849), vol. 1, 2nd Decade, pp. 267-98
Calvin, John – 5th Commandment in Institutes of the Christian Religion tr. Henry Beveridge (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 1, bk. 2, pp. 466-70
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – The Common Places… (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583)
pt. 1, ‘Of Honor’ in ch. 14. ‘Of Felicity in general and of the chiefest good, out of the commentaries upon Aristotle’s Ethics’ 141-45
pt. 2, ch. 8. ‘The Fifth Precept: of the Honoring of Superiors’ 377
‘A Comparison between the Duties of Parents & Magistrates’ 377
‘What Dominion the Husband has over the Wife’ 379
‘Of Ambition’ 381
‘Of the Desire of Praise’ 382
‘Of Flattery’ 383
pt. 4, ch. 20, ‘Of Nobility’ 311
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
5th Commandment 70.a
Things to be observed in that he says ‘Honor the father and mother’ 70.b
Who He appointed to be honored 71.a
The word of ‘honoring’ 71.b
Of the transgressors of this precept 72.b
Parents must not alienate the hearts of their children 73.a
Things to be observed in that he says, ‘That thou may long live upon the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee’ 74.a
If it be good of itself to live, it is also good to live long 75.a
It is not therefore evil to live here because it is better to live in heaven 75.a
The dwelling in the land requires the keeping of the commandments 76.a
Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction… (d. 1571; London: Veale, 1573), The Exposition of the Preface of the Law
Ursinus, Zachary
The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (d. 1583; Oxford, 1587)
The Proper or peculiar virtues of this Fifth commandment
The Vices Contrary to the peculiar and proper virtues of this Fifth Commandment
The Common Virtues of this Fifth Commandment
The Vices contrary to these common virtues of this Fifth Commandment
20. Of the Six First Commandments in Rules & Axions of Certain Chief Points of Christianity in A Collection of Certain Learned Discourses… (Oxford, 1600)
Finch, Henry – 7. Of Honor in The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity gathered out of the Word of God… (Middelburg: 1589), bk. 2
Finch (d. 1625) was an English lawyer and politician.
Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – 34. ‘Upon the Fifth Commandment’ in 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), pp. 82-86
Virel, Matthew – 5th Commandment in A Learned & Excellent Treatise Containing All the Principal Grounds of Christian Religion (London, 1594), bk. 2, 1. Of Good Works, 1st Part, Exposition of the Moral Law
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1600’s
Perkins, William
24. 5thCommandment in A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience… (Cambridge: Legat, 1606), bk. 3, ch. 6
Question 2, How one man should honor another?
Sect. 1, Honoring Superiors
Sect. 2, Honoring Equals
Sect. 3, Honoring Inferiors
Sect. 4, Honoring Oneself
Ames, William – ch. 17, ‘The Honor of our Neighbor’ in The Marrow of Theology tr. John D. Eusden (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 2, pp. 308-14
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 – 9. ‘The Virtues & Works Connected with the Fifth Commandment’ in Abridgment of Christian Divinity (1626) in ed. John Beardslee, Reformed Dogmatics: J. Wollebius, G. Voetius & F. Turretin (Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), bk. 2, pp. 230-34
Wolleb (1589–1629) was a Swiss reformed theologian. He was a student of Amandus Polanus.
Rutherford, Samuel – Question 15, ‘Whether or No the King be Univocally, or Only Analogically & by Proportion, a Father’ in Lex Rex... (1644; Edinburgh: Ogle, 1843), pp. 62-64
Leigh, Edward – A System or Body of Divinity… (London, A.M., 1654)
pp. 373-76 of ch. 22. ‘Of Railing, Rebellion…’ in bk. 4, pp. 372-77
bk. 9, ch. 6, The Fifth Commandment, pp. 749-57
Turretin, Francis – 16. ‘May children withdraw themselves from the power of their parents and marry without their consent? We deny against the papists.’ in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 11th Topic, p. 104 ff.
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Quote
1600’s
Samuel Rutherford
Lex Rex... (1644; Edinburgh: Ogle, 1843), p. 26
“But violation of faith amongst equals, as equals, is not properly disobedience; for disobedience is betwixt a superior and an inferior…”
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Latin
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert
5th Commandment in Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 1 Abbr.
Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht, 1667), vol. 4, 50. ‘A Syllabus of Questions on the Whole Decalogue’
Prologue to the 2nd Table
On humility toward equals 790
On humility toward inferiors 790
5th Commandment
Of grades of superiors & inferiors, & of inequality 792
Of humility & pride 793
Of honor, dignity & nobility 793
Of the duties of superiors towards inferiors in general 793
Of the duties of inferiors towards superiors in general, & of their opposites 794
Of the mutual duties of husbands & wives 794
Of men & women 794
Of the order & duties of parents & children 794
Of stepfathers, stepmothers, stepchildren, fathers-in-law, a mother-in-law, son-in-laws, etc. 795
On adoption & the adopted 795
On legal tutors, guardians and writers of testaments 795
On teachers & students 795
On the mutual duties of seniors and those younger 795
On lords & servants 796
On the mutual duties of ministers & the faithful in the ecclesiastical body 796
On magistrates & subjects in general 796
On magistrates & their subordinates, or on officials in specific 796
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