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Subsections
Surety
Active Obedience
Atonement
Intercessor
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Order of Contents
Articles 10+
Priesthood of Believers
Latin 3
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Articles
1500’s
Bullinger, Henry – 7th Sermon, ‘Of Christ, King & Priest; of his Only & Everlasting Kingdom & Priesthood; and of the Name of a Christian’ in The Decades ed. Thomas Harding (1549; Cambridge: Parker Society, 1850), vol. 3, 4th Decade, pp. 273-97 Bullinger does not mention Christ’s office of prophet.
Calvin, John – 15. ‘Three things chiefly to be regarded in Christ; viz., his Offices of Prophet, King & Priest’ in Institutes of the Christian Religion tr. Henry Beveridge (1559; Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1845), vol. 2, bk. 2, pp. 35-46
Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction… (d. 1571; London: Veale, 1573), A Familiar Exposition of the Principal Points of the Catechism, and of the Christian Doctrine, made in Form of Dialogue, 9th Dialogue: Of the Offices of Jesus Christ
Of the office of Sacrificer of Jesus Christ, and of the parts thereof
Of Two most principal parts of the priestly office of Jesus Christ
How that None may be a perfect sacrificer but Jesus Christ only
For what Cause no sacrifice nor any other work of man whatsoever it be, may be able to make satisfaction to God
Why One only sin makes a man guilty of all the law and of damnation
If those which have most sinned shall be most punished by God’s judgment
Of the Impurity of men’s works, and how God judges of them
Of the Obligation whereby man is bound to God, and for what cause he cannot make recompence by the good works which he does, for the evil works which he has committed
For what Cause there is nothing but the only sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which may satisfy at the judgment of God
Of the Perfect obedience of Jesus Christ, which makes his office so perfect
Olevian, Caspar – An Exposition of the Apostle’s Creed (London, 1581), pt. 2
Why Christ was anointed, not only to be king, but also priest?
Of the profit that we take by this that Christ was anointed to be a priest
How far forth those things which are spoken concerning the office of Christ, or of the priestly and prophetical kingdom of Christ, agree with the doctrine of the free covenant
What fruit the faithful receive by that same sitting of Christ at the right hand of God, or rather by that exaltation of Christ in his kingdom and priesthood
The second fruit whereof we be partakers by this exaltation of Christ in the priesthood
The third fruit
The fourth fruit
Olevian (1536–1587) was a significant German reformed theologian, and has been said to be a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism along with Zacharias Ursinus (though this has been questioned).
Ursinus, Zachary – 3. What Christ’s Priesthood is in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (d. 1583; Oxford, 1587)
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1600’s
Bucanus, William – Institutions of Christian Religion... (London: Snowdon, 1606), 2. ‘Of Christ’
What is his Priestly office?
How many parts be there of this office?
According to which nature is Christ a mediator and a priest?
Was Christ Mediator before his Incarnation?
How does the Son make intercession to the Father?
Have you any pregnant testimony concerning the Priesthood of Christ?
May the ministers of the Gospel be called ‘priests’?
Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 2, 14th Topic
8. ‘Whether Christ was a Priest of true name who began his priesthood on earth. Or was he so called only figuratively, who fulfilled his office in heaven after his ascension and not before? We affirm the former and deny the latter against the Socinians.’ 403
9. ‘On the nature and unity of Christ’s priesthood and why it is said to be according to the order of Melchizedek.’ 406
van Mastricht, Peter – ch. 7, ‘The Mediator as a High Priest’ in Theoretical Practical Theology (2nd ed. 1698; RHB), vol. 4, pt. 1, bk. 5, pp. 203-37
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1700’s
à Brakel, Wilhelmus – ch. 20, ‘The High Priestly Office of Christ’ in The Christian’s Reasonable Service, vols. 1 ed. Joel Beeke, trans. Bartel Elshout Buy (1700; RHB, 1992/1999), pp. 539-61
a Brakel (1635-1711) was a contemporary of Voet and Witsius and a major representative of the Dutch Further Reformation.
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1900’s
Berkhof, Louis – Systematic Theology (1950)
‘The Priestly Office’ 14 paragraphs
‘The Intercessory Work of Christ’ 13 paragraphs
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On the Priesthood of Believers
Article
1500’s
Musculus, Wolfgang – ‘Of the communicating or participation of the priesthood of Christ’ in Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563), ‘Priesthood of the New Testament’, folio 251.a
Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (d. 1583; Oxford, 1587), Of the Communion of the Faithful, or Christians, with Christ
3. What is the Priesthood of Christians
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Latin Articles
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert – Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 2 Abbr.
Of the Presupposed Condition of the Priestly Office, which is on the Obedience of Christ to the Law
Of the Second Part of Christ the Priest, even Intercession
Appendix: On Melchizedek
Hoornbeek, Johannes – ch. 9, ‘Of Christ’ in Theological Institutes, Harmonized from the Best Authors (Leiden, 1658)
17. The priestly office of Christ consists in this, that He offered Himself to God in a true expiation for sins and intercedes continually for us before the Father: Ames 310
18. Christ expiated for our sins by a true satisfaction: Maccovius & Wallaeus 311
19. Christ sustained sufferings and death for us, not only bodily, but spiritual, even in the soul itself He suffered most weighty punishments: Walaeus 318
20. And made satisfaction to the Law by a most full righteousness, both active and passive: Gomarus 319
21. And further, He was thus meriting salvation for us from God: Zanchi, Gormarus 321
22. Christ presented that for his elect, those to be saved, those ones solely and all of them, by which they have already at some point been made alive or will be overcome: Gormarus & Maccovius 323
Alting, Henry – A New Problematic Theology, or a System of Theological Problems (Amsterdam, 1662), Locus 12, ‘Of the Person & Office of Christ’
28. ‘Whether Christ indeed was a prophet, priest and king in the earth?’ [Yes], p. 600
31. ‘Whether Christ despaired on the cross?’, p. 603
32. ‘Whether the blood of Christ poured out on the cross putrified?’ [Probably], p. 605
33. ‘Whether it ought to be said that the death of Christ is eternal, or whether it is equivelent to eternal?’, p. 606
34. ‘Whether Christ died even for reprobates, such that He procured for them [common, non-saving] spiritual gifts and the resurrection of the flesh?’ [No], p. 607
35. ‘Whether the satisfaction or merit of Christ is destroyed out of the principles of the orthodox doctrine?’, p. 609
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