On the 5th Commandment

“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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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.

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