All the titles are in English, as well as many of the tables of contents.

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Order of Contents  (115+ in chronological order by nation)

Introduction

Swiss                                                   Dutch
.     Bullinger  1551
.     Calvin  1559                                        Daneus  1575
.     Musculus  1560                                  Lubbert  1591
.     Beza  1570                                           Trelcatius, Sr.  †1602
.     Szegedin Pannonius  †1572           Trelcatius, Jr.  1614
.     Foxe  1572                                         Gomarus, Arminius, Trelcatius, Jr.  1615
.     Aretius  †1574                                     Synopsis of Pure Theology  1625
.     Bucan  †1603                                      Polyander  1629
.     Wolleb  †1629                                     Trigland, Sr.  1637
.     Zwinger  1657                                     Walaeus  †1639
.                                                                 Schotanus  1640
.     Hottinger  1660                                  Gomarus  †1641
.     Turretin, F.  1679                                Cloppenburg  1643
.     Heidegger  †1698                               von Diest  1643
.    Pictet  1696                                          Voetius  1644
     Wyss  †1700
.     Rodolph  1714                                      Revius  1648
Roy  †1733
.     Turretin, J.A.  †1737                           Spanheim  †1649
.      Beck  1757                                         Maetz  1650
.    Chavannes  1771                                 Coccius  1654
.                                                                    Hoornbeek  1658
Italian                                                         Velthuysen  1666
.    Vermigli  †1562                                    Vogelsang  1668
.    Zanchi  1573                                         Burman  1671
.                                                                    Wittich  1671
German                                                      Rissen  1676
.    Bucer  1527                                          Essenius  †1677
.    Hyperius  1559                                    Heidanus  1678
.    Ursinus  †1583                                    Salden  1684
.    Strigel  1584                                         Leydekker  1688
.    Snecanus  1591                                   Braun  1691
.    Sohn  1591                                           Van Til  1703
.    Piscator  1589                                      Mastricht  †1706 
.    Polanus  1590                                     Andala  1711
.    Bachoff  1603                                       Vitringa  1722
.    Casmann  1603                                    Venema  1726
.    Martin  1603                                          Wesselius  1734
.    Keckermann  1607                                Honert  1735
.    Pareus  1611                                         Voget  1736
.    Ravensperger  1611                              Bernsau  1755
.    Alsted  1612                                          Stapfer  1756
.    Hommius  1614                                     De Moore  1761
.    Mylius  1618
.    Wendelin  1634                                Belgic
.    Crocius  1636                                          Junius, F.  †1602
.    Alting  †1644
Clauberg & Hund  1665
.    Momma  †1677
.    Melchior  1685                                 Polish
.    Lent  1694                                               Maccovius  1639
.    Marck  1696
.    Holtzfus  †1717                               Scottish
.    Guertlerus  1721                                      Sharp  1620
.    Lampe  1724                                            Boyd  †1627
.    Wyttenbach  1747                                   Rutherford  1636
.    Brunings  1755                                         Forbes  1645
.    Endemann  1780
.                                                             English
.                                                                       Fenner  1586
.                                                                       Davenant  1634
French                                                           Prideaux  1648
.     Boquin  1561                                           Tully  †1676
.        Ramus  †1572                                          Baxter  1681
.        Virel  1587
.        Tossanus, Sr.  1590
.        Chandieu  †1591                             New England
.     Tilen  1607                                               Ames  †1633
.     Chamier  †1621
.     Maresius  1649                                Hungarian                                
.        Molina, Cappel et al. 1661                    Eszeki  1675
.       Cappel, Amyraut, La Place  1664          Szent-Gyorgy  1784
.     Gautier  1696                      

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Introduction

William Cunningham (1878, of the Free Church of Scotland):

“The English language, though it contains many valuable works on particular doctrines and on separate subjects in systematic theology, contains comparatively very few systems; i.e. very few works in which all the leading doctrines of Christianity are arranged in systematic order, proved from the Word of God, and their connections and relations pointed out. 

Systems of theology have been chiefly the productions of Continental writers, and are to be found principally in the Latin language, one fact among many others of a similar kind which establishes the necessity of students of theology acquiring the capacity of reading Latin with perfect ease and readiness. 

…and there can be no doubt that the study of the writings of these men has tended greatly to promote correct and comprehensive views of the scheme of divine truth….  the English language does not contain a great deal, comparatively speaking, that is of much value in the way of systems of theology.”

– Theological Lectures, pp. 39-40

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Reformed Systematic Theologies in Latin

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Swiss Reformed

Bullinger, Henry

An Antithesis & Compendium of Evangelical & Papist Doctrine  (1551)

Bullinger (1504-75)

A Compendium of Christian Religion (1556; Zurich, 1598)  There is an index at the end.

Table of Contents

1. Of the Sacred Biblical Scripture of the Old & New Testament  1
2. Of God & his Most Excellent Works & of the True Worship of God  18
3. Of Sin & the Punishment of Sin  27
4. Of the Divine Law  37
5. Of the Grace of God Tendered to the World in Christ, & of Justification  59
6. Of Faith, the Gospel & Repentance  68
7. Of Invocation & the Prayers of the Faithful  94
8. Of the Most Holy Sacraments of Christ & his Church  109
9. Of the Good Works of the Faithful  126
10. Of the Blessed Death of Man and the End of All Things  137

A Catechism Written for Adults, about the First Principles of the Christian Religion   (1559; Tigur, 1563)

A Simple Confession & Exposition of the Orthodox Faith & Catholic Doctrines of the Sincere Christian Religion  (1566; Bern, 1676)

Table of Contents

1. Of Sacred Scripture, the True Word of God  1
2. On How to Interpret the Sacred Scriptures, the Fathers, Councils & Traditions  4  
3. Of God, his Unity & Trinity  6
4. Of Idols, or Images of God, Christ or gods  8
5. Of Adoration, Worship & Prayer to God by the One Mediator, Jesus Christ  10
6. Of the Providence of God  12
7. Of the Creation of All Things, of Angels, Devils & Man  14
8. Of the Fall of Man, Sin & the Cause of Sin  16
9. Of Free-Will & How Far be the Powers of Man  19
10. Of the Predestination of God & the Election of the Saints  23
11. Of Jesus Christ, True God & Man, the Only Savior of the World  26
12. Of the Law of God  32
13. Of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, also of the Promises, the Spirit & the Letter  34
14. Of Repentance & the Conversion of Man  37
15. Of the True Justification of the Faithful  42
16. Of Faith & Good Works, & their reward & the Merit of Man  45
17. Of the Catholic & Holy Church of God & the Only Head of the Church  51
18. Of the Ministers of the Church & their Institution & Offices  59
19. Of the Sacraments of the Church of Christ  71
20. Of Holy Baptism  77
21. Of the Sacred Supper of the Lord  80
22. Of Sacred Marriages & Ecclesiastics  86
23. Of the Prayers, Song & Canonical Hours of the Church  88
24. Of Festivals, Fastings & Restriction of Foods  90
25. Of Catechizing, & the Consolation of the Sick, or Visitation  93
26. Of the Burial of the Faithful & of the Due Care for the Dead, of Purgatory & the Apparition of Spirits  95
27. Of Rituals, Ceremonies & Means  96
28. Of the Goods of the Church  98
29. Of Celibacy, Marriage & Household Affairs  99
30. Of the Magistrate  101
10 Conclusions of Disputations at Bern, 1528  105

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Calvin, John

Institutes of the Christian Religion  (1559; Corp. Ref., 1864)  In English: vol. 1, 2, 3 

Calvin (1509-1564)

Of the Secret Providence of God  (Geneva, 1558)  In English

Musculus, Wolfgang

Common Places of Sacred Theology  (Basel, 1560)  In English

Musculus (1497-1563)

A Catechism of the Christian Religion, Comprised in a Short Space  (1545)

Beza, Theodore – Theological Tracts, in which many of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion are Restored to Whole and Defended from the Word of God Against the Heretical Sects of our Times, vol. 1, 2, 3  (Geneva, 1570)  There is a table of contents at the beginning of each volume.

Beza (1519-1605)

Foxe, John – Pandectae. Locorum communium, præcipua rerum capita & titulos, iuxta ordinem eleme[n]torum complectentes  Ref  (Excudebat Iohannes Dayus, 1572)  1,208 pp.

Here is an article on this work: John Rechtien, ‘John Foxe’s Comprehensive Collection of Commonplaces: a Renaissance Memory System for Students and Theologians’ in The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 9, No. 1 (April, 1978), pp. 82-89

Szegedin Pannonius, Stephan

Common Places of Pure Theology, of God and Man, Explained in Continuous Tables and the Dogma of the Schools Illustrated  (Basil, 1585/93) 506 pp. The whole work is in the form of outlines. There is a table of contents after the prefaces and a subject index at the end.

Szegedin (1515-1572) also was known as Stephan Kis.

Table of Contents

I.  Of God, in General  1

Things which are of God

The Contemplation of God  6
Name of God  19
Nature of God  21
Sufficiency of God  21
Omnipotence of God  22
Will of God  22
Goodness of God  24
Love of God  25
Mercy of God  26
Power of God  27
Justice of God  28
Providence of God  29
Foreknowledge of God  29
Truth of God  33
Wrath of God  34
Waters of Wrath [mentioned in Scripture]  35
Judgments of God  36
Last Judgment  37
Works or Actions of God  40
Books of God  43
Vengeance of God  44

An Annual of the Well-Done, Vast Things of God

Laws in General  45
Judicial Laws  51??
Moral Laws, or the Decalogue  50
Ceremonial Laws  52
The Discrimination of the Law, Moral, Ceremonial, Judicial  54
Circumcision  55
Sabbath  56
Tabernacle of Moses  58
Sacrifice in General  60
Legal, Sacred Vestments  62
Legal Festivals  63
Abrogation of the Law  64
Precepts of God in General  68
Exposition of the Precepts of the 1st & 2nd Table  69
Fulfillment of the Law  65
Ways of God  66
Covenant & Testament of God  71
Difference of the Old & New Testament  75
Means of the Holy Spirit  78
Grace of God  80
Dispensation of Grace & Human Salvation by Christ  80
Advent of Christ in the World  81
Comparison of the First & Second Coming of Christ  81
Reconciliation of the World with God  82
The Nature of Christ and the Union of Natures  83
Human Redemption in General  85
Priesthood of the New Testament  86
Threefold-Priesthood  87
Union of the Faithful with Christ  88
The Voice of Christ and the Church  89
Father’s Drawing to the Son  90
Christ the King and Priest  96
Christ the Only Mediator  92
Christ, Various Assertions  95
Reign of Christ  97
Incarnation of the Word  97
Temptation of Christ & Christians  99
Temptation of the Devil, the Adversary of Christ and Us,
and its Remedies  101
Weeping of Christ  103
Sacrifice of Christ  104
Burial of Christ  106
Resurrection of Christ  107
Ascension of Christ  107
Mission of the Holy Spirit  108
Description of Christ out of Isa. 53  109
Predestination  110
Reprobation  122
Church  124
Ecclesiastical Assembly  127
Ecclesiastical Power  128
Discipline  129
Ecclesiastical Ordinance[s]  130
Twofold Temple of God  132
House of God  133
Citizenry of God  134
Justification  136
Remission of Sins  139
Christian Liberty  142
Sacred Scriptures  144
Examples in Scripture Held Out to Us  155
Word of God  156
Gospel  158
Contention of Law and Gospel  159
Names of the Word of God & Traditions [Contrasted]  160
Keys  161
Sacraments  163
Baptism  166
Profanations of Baptism  169
Reason [New] Names are Appropriately Given in Baptism   170
Significations of the Appropriate Names [Given in Scripture]  170
Lord’s Supper  171
Presence of the Body & Blood of Christ  184
Profanations of the Lord’s Supper  185
Collation of the Passover Lamb with the Lord’s Supper  186
Spiritual Food and Drink  187
Drink, or the Living Water of Christians  187
Good Angels  188
Miracles  188
False Miracles  190
Magistrates  191
Ministers of the Word  195
Good Pastors  197
Prophets  199
Prophecy  200
Apostles  201
Overseers [Episcopis]  202
Calling  203
Office & Nature of Ministers  204
Excommunication  205
Laying On of Hands  209
Resurrection of the Dead  211
Glory, or Eternal Blessedness  214

II.  Of Man

Things which are of Man

Of Man in General  215
Image of God  218
Origin of the Nations  220
Fall  222
Concupiscence  223
Free-Will  225
Sin  229
Merit  237
Flesh of Man  238
Health of the Body  238
Spirit of Man  239
Threefold State of Sanctified Men  242
Life  244
Man  244
Woman  245
Youth  246
Memory  247
Death  248
Diseases  248
Leper & Leprosy  249
Captivity  250
Death  251
Preparation of Christian Men for Death  256
Grave  257
Care & Furnishing of a Burial  259
Place of a Grave  260

Things of Piety which are Required from Men

Knowledge of God  261
True Cult of God  263
Fear of God  169
Faith  270
True Confession of Christ  274
Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed  275
Repentance [Poenitentia]  277
Christian Perfection  281
Good Works  281
Hope  283
Piety to God  283
Love  284
Obedience  286
Conscience  287
Joy in General  287
True Joy in Heart  288
Innocence  288
Prayer  288
Twofold Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer  293
Exertion [Studio]  298
Doctors, or Tutors  300
Conduct [Conversatione]  301
Counsels  301
War  302
Table of Monarchies, an Exposition of Sacred & Profane History  303
Causes of Royal Desolations  305
Forensic & Legal Judgment  306
Division of Law in General  307
Justice  308
Humility  309
Patience  311
Oath  312
Loyalty  314
Thankfulness  314
Brotherly Admonition  315
The Tongue, which Needs to be Curbed  315
Silence  317
Peace  317
Mercy  319
Alms  321
Zeal  322
Good Intention  323
Christian Festivals  324
Ecclesiastical Song  325
Synods  325
Reverence  327
Moderation  327
Mildness  328
Concord  329
Humanity  330
Chastity  330
Temperance  331
Simplicity, or Integrity  331
Doing Good  332
Truthfulness  332
Friendship  333
Fortitude  334
Constancy  334
Nobleness  334
Servitude  336
Vows  339
Honor of the Saints  341
Afflictions Which Ought to Borne  341
Persecutions  343
Poverty  343
Life of a Christian Man  344
Marriage  345
Divorce  347
Nuptial Union, or How a Spouse Ought to be Drawn  349
Matrimonial Controversies  350
Espousals  360
Nuptials, or of Marriage  362
Impediments of Marriage  363
Dissolution of Marriage  367
Remarriage  369
Fasting  370
Abstaining  373
Sobriety  377
Use of Wine and Drink  378
Due Preparation for Occupations  380
Commerce  381
Legitimate Use of Occupations  381

Things which are Prohibited to Men

Idolatry  382
Disbelief  382
Tempting God  382
Papal Mass  384
Collation of the Contention Between Civil Commerce with Pontifical  387
Antichrist  388
Papistry  391
Antithesis of the Works of Christ & the Pope  393
The Differing Voice of Christ & the Pope  394
Epithets of Sacrificing Priests & Ministers  396
System of Roman Popes in the Apocalypse  397
Satan, the Adversary of Christians  399
Demons  399
Heresies  402
Magic  406
Vanity of the Judgments of Divinations & Astrology
Superstition  410
Dreams  414
Schisms  414
Desperation  415
Human Traditions in General  416
Discrimination & Error of the Fathers  417
Fables  419
Imaginations  420
Lies  422
Perjury  423
Homicide  423
Blasphemy  425
Enmity  426
Avarice  427
Drunkenness  428
Apathy  431
Wrath  432
Envy  434
Gluttony  434
Haughtiness [Superbia]  435
Discrimination in Clothes and Excessive Luxury  436
Impudent Dances  437
Vanity of Glory  443
Excessive Veneration  444
Celibacy of Priests  444
Adultery  445
Adulation  446
Detraction  447
Clamor & Evil-Speaking  448
Sedition  450
Discord  451
Scandal  451
Theft by Stealth  452
Open Theft  455
Weapon  455
Betrayal  455
Ingratitude  456
Hypocrisy  456
Injustice  457
Private Vengeance  457
Usury  457
Rash Judgment  463
Presumption  464
Dishonest Gain  464
Wealth Necessary to be Acquired   465
Ambition  467

3.  Of Popish Doctrine

Angels  468
Man  470
Predestination  471
Free-Will  471
Sin in General  472
Original Sin  473
Actual Mortal Sin  473
Actual Venial Sin  474
Law  476
Gospel  477
Faith  477
Justification  478
Works  480
Merit  481
Sacraments in General  481
Discrimination & Division of Sacraments  482
Baptism  483
Mass, or the Supper  484
Confirmation  485
Extreme Unction  485
Priesthood, or Ordination  486
Penance  489
Contrition  490
Oral Confession  491
Satisfaction  491
Marriage  492
Indulgences  492
Church  493
Keys, or Ecclesiastical Power  494
Prayer  495
Fasting  495
Councils  495
Human Traditions  495
Pope, or the Roman Pontiff  496
Excommunication  498
Celibacy of Priests  499
Burial  499
Eternal Life  500
Absolution  500
Worship of God and of the Saints  501
Vow  502
State of Perfection, or Monasticism  505
Evangelical Councils  505
Purgatory  504
Votings  504

Aretius, Benedict

Examination of Theology: A Brief and Clear, Written Out Method  (Morgiis, 1584)  167 pp.

Sacred Problems of Theology: Common Places of the Christian Religion Methodically Explicated  (Geneva, 1589; Bern, 1604)  There are subject and textual indices at the end.

Aretius (1505–1574)

Table of Contents

1. Knowledge of God which the Gentiles have been Provided  1
2. How the Notion Ought to be Known that there is One God? Where it is Considered of God the Father  4
3. Divinity of Christ, and Why He is Declared the Logos  9
4. Holy Spirit  12
5. Providence of God  15
6. Predestination  17
7. Original Sin  21
8. [Of Man’s] Consent to Evil  24
9. Sin Against the Holy Spirit  28
10. Humanity of Christ  30
11. Office of Messiah  33
12. Peace of Christ  36
13. In What Manner Christ is the Bread of Life  38
14. Passion [Suffering] of the Lord  41
15. More Careful Consideration of the Passion of the Lord  45
16. Descent of Christ to ‘Hell’ [Inferos]  48
17. Limbo of the Fathers  51
18. Resurrection  53
19. Appearances of Christ after the Resurrection  57
20. Ascension  59
21. Body of Christ After the Ascension Exists in One and Certain Location  61
22. Calling of the Gentiles  64
23. Faith  67
24. Justification  70
25. Grace  79
26. Free-Will  82
27. Merits of Men  84
28. Works  87
29. Doubt: Whether a State of Certainty is Possible? Whether [you may know] you are in Grace or not?  91
30. Security  94
31. Unbelief  95
32. Hope  97
33. Divine Promises  100
34. Remission of Sins  104
35. Satisfactions  106
36. Love: Whether it is the Cause of the Remission of Sins?  110
37.  Repentance  112
38. [Whether the Church Should Show] Grace on the Fallen [who Fell Away in Persecution?]  114
39. Hardness of Heart  119
40. Induration  121
41. The Old Man [Unconverted-Self]  123
42. Affections: Whether They All are Faulty?  125
43. Regeneration  127
44. The New Man [Regenerated]  129
45. What is Our Life of [Christian] Profession? How it Should be Answered  112
46. Conscience  134
47. Zeal  136
48. Reading of Sacred Literature  138
49. Utility of Scripture  141
50. Prophecy  144
51. The Spirit & Letter  147
52. Allegories  149
53. Obscurity of the Mosaic & the Whole of Scripture  154
54. Abrogation of the Law  158
55. Observance of the Sabbath  160
56. Examples of the Old Testament: How Far They Ought to be Transferred to Our Use?  162
57. Church  165
58. Concord of the Church  172
59. Schisms  175
60. Primacy  177
61. Keys of the Church  181
62. Ecclesiastical Offices  183
63. The Ministry  186
64. Virtues of the Gospel Ministry  191
65. Laying on of Hands  193
66. Signification of ‘Deacon’  195
67. Exorcists  196
68. Catechisms  199
69. False Doctors  202
70. Sacrifices of Christians  204
71. Liturgy  207
72. Prayer  213
73. Adoration [of Christ]  216
74. Idolatry  220
75. Foreign Languages in the Church of Christ  226
76. The Sacramental Signs: Whether they are Means [Conserant] of Grace?  229
77. Use of the Sacraments  232
78. Circumcision  236
79. Imposition of Names  238
80. How Baptism has Succeeded Circumcision  242
81. How the Lord’s Supper has Succeeded the Passover  248
82. Breaking of Bread  250
83. Fermentation  252
84. Human Traditions  256
85. Cross of the Church-Militant  258
86. Persecutions  262
87. Constancy in the Profession of Christ  265
88. Levity  267
89. Fleeing  269
90. Origin & Dignity of the Christian Name  273
91. Imitation of Christ and the Saints  278
92. Saints  281
93. Perfection  285
94. Humility  288
95. Equity  291
96. Gratitude  293
97. Ingratitude  294
98. Ignorance  296
99. Truth  299
100. Hypocrisy  302
101. Opinion  304
102. Dissimulation of Peter [Gal. 2]  306
103. Mouth of Peace [James 3]  309
104. Deceit
105. Adulation  314
106. Detraction  316
107. Due Reputation of a Good Name  318
108. An Oath  321
109. Blasphemy  325
110. Benediction  328
111. A Curse  334
112. Excommunication  336
113. Anathema  341
114. Vows  342
115. Temptation  345
116. Satan & Evil Spirits in General  348
117. Adiaphora [Indifferent Things]  350
118. Fasting for 40 Days  353
119. Of Food & its Love, with Piety  357
120. Clothing  363
121. Nakedness  368
122. Observing Times [Generally, Times of Prayer, Festival Days, Ecclesiastical & Civil, etc.]: How Far it is Lawful for a Christian?  370
123. Festivals  371
124. Feast of Palms [Palm Sunday]  373
125. Temples  376
126. Dedications [Encaeniis]  380
127. Genealogies  382
128. How Far it is Appropriate for Us to Accommodate the Infirmities of Brothers  385
129. Scandal  388
130. Riches: How Far They Hinder the Cause of Salvation?  390
131. Usury  394
132. Sufficiency  397
133. Liberality  398
134. Prodigality  401
135. Communion of Goods  403
136. An Alms-deed, How it is Not a Work of Satisfaction for Sins  407
137. Collection for Paupers  409
138. Labor of the Hands  412
139. Study  414
140. Idleness  417
141. Sleep: How Far it is a Cause of Good Health  419
142. Stipends of Ministers  422
143. Use of Medicine  426
144. Magic  430
145. Enchantment  434
146. Ghosts  436
147. Lots  442
148. Fate [Casu] & Fortune  444
149. Philosophy is Not to be Neglected in the Study of Piety  446
150.  Reading of Profane [Ethnicorum] Writings  451
151. Worldly Erudition Ought to be Taken Up in the Ministry of the Gospel  456
152. Honoring of Parents  459
153. Magistrate  463
154. Obedience  467
155. Tribute  469
156. Sedition  472
157. Injustice Repulsed  474
158. Whether Wrath is in God, and How?  [No]  477
159. Vengeance  479
160.  Injustices to a Christian Man Ought to be Borne  482
161. Appeals [from Civil Punishment]  485
162. Punishments  488
163. Virginity  491
164. Celibacy  491
165. Marriage  498
166. Marriage of Ministers
167. Adultery  503
168. Divorce  505
169. Dances [Choreis] & Dances [Saltationibus]  508
170. Hospitality  512
171. Banquets  514
172. Earthquake  517
173. Death  523
174. Burial  527
175. Mourning for those Having Departed  530
176. Vanity of the Creatures  534
177. End of the Word  537
178. Last [Novissimo] Judgment  546
179. Paradise  546
180. Reign of Heaven  551
181. Purgatory  553
182. Hell & Punishments in Hell  558
183. Coming of Christ to Judgment  560
184. Eternal Life  562

Bucan, William – Theological Institutes, or the Common Places of the Christian Religion out of the Word of God  (3rd ed., Bern, 1605)  49 chs. in 847 pp.  There are subject and textual indices at the end.  Here is the English Table of Contents (after the publication info).

Bucan (d. 1603)  

Hottinger (1620-1677)

Brief Table of Contents

Prolegomena  1
1. Of Theology  4  
2. Of The Principle of Theology: Sacred Scripture  13
3. Of God  36
4. Of the Decrees of God in General, & of Predestination in Specific  72
5. Of Creation  106
6. Of Providence  126
7. Of Sin in General & in Specific  149
8. Of Free-Will in a State of Sin  172
9. Of the Punishment of Sin  187
10. Of the Law of God  196
11. Of the Gospel and the Gospel Covenant  235
12. Of the Person and Office of Christ  251
13. Of the Church  303
14. Of The Calling of the Church-Militant by the Word & Sacraments  332
15. Of the Government of the Church, First Ecclesiastical, then Civil  379
16. Of the Gift of Repentance & Faith by Effectual Calling  408
17. Of Justification  439
18. Of Sanctification  467
19. Of Perseverance  485
20. Of Glorification  495

Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, vols. 1, 2  (Geneva, 1679-1686; NY, 1847)  In English: Buy 

Turretin (1623–1687)

Heidegger, Johann Heinrich – A Body of Christian Theology, Exhibiting True Doctrine, which is according to godliness, vol. 1 (chs. 1-16; 742 pp.), 2 (chs. 17-29; 788 pp.)  (Tigur, 1700)  A more detailed order of contents than below (without page numbers) follows the preface to the work in vol. 1.  There are subject and textual indices at the end of vol. 2.

Heidegger (1633-1698)

Table of Contents

1 – Theology in General   1.1
2 – Holy Scripture   1.22
3 – The Existance and Divinity of God   1.60
4 – The Truly Triune God   1.104
5 – The Decrees of God   1.146
6 – The Creation of the World   1.182
7 – The Providence of God   1.239
8 – Angels   1.279
9 – The Covenant of Works   1.300
10- The Sin of Man   1.327
11 – The Covenant of Grace   1.370
12 – The Economy of the Covenant of Grace under the
.            Patriarchs   1.417
13 – The Economy of the Covenant of Grace under the Law of
.            Moses   1.454
14 – The Ten Commandments   1.499
15 – The Ritual Law of Moses   1.645
16 – The Judicial Law of Moses   1.698
17 – The Person of Jesus Christ   2.1
18 – The State[s] of Jesus Christ   2.34
19 – The Office of Jesus Christ   2.71
20 – The Economy of the Covenant of Grace under the Gospel   2.152
21 – The Grace of Callling   2.201
22 – The Grace of Justification   2.260
23 – The Grace of Sanctification   2.310
24 – The Firmness of the Covenant of Grace   2.375
25 – Of Outward Worship, chiefly of the Sacraments of the
.             New Testament   2.425
26 – The Church   2.503
27 – The Government of the Christian Church   2.553
28 – The Government of the Anti-Christian Church   2.637
29 – Of Glorification   2.691

Pictet, Benedict 

Christian Theology, being drawn out of the Pure Font of the Scriptures  (Geneva, 1696; 4th ed. London, 1820)  See the longer table of contents. This work has been translated into English 

Pictet (1655–1724)

Table of Contents

1. Of the Existence of God & his Word  1
2. Of God, One & Three  55
3. Of the Decrees  102
4. Of the Decree of Creation & of the Creation itself  108
5. Of the Decree Permitting the Fall & of the Fall of Angels & Men  134
6. Of Providence  169
7. Of the Decree of God about the Salvation of Men  190
8. Of the Means Executing Election, & of Christ the Mediator & the Covenant of Grace  207
9. Of Calling & Faith  278
10. Of Justification  299
11. Of Sanctification  314
12. Of Glorification  334
13. Of the Church  347
14. Of the Sacraments  378

The Marrow of Christian Theology, Instructive and Elenctic  (Geneva, 1711)  246 pp.  This is in a dialogue, question and answer format.  The Latin table of contents is at the end of the work.

Table of Contents

1 – Of Theology in General, the Existence of God, and Religion   1
2 – The Word of God and Sacred Scripture   6
3 – The One God and his Perfections   19
4 – The Trinity   35
5 – The Creation of the World, Angels and Man   50
6 – The Fall of the Angels and Man, and the Consequences   59
7 – Providence   73
8 – The Decrees of God Concerning the Salvation of Men   84
9 – Christ the Mediator, the Law, the Covenant of Grace   93
10 – The Benefits of Christ and Calling   128
11 – Justification   141
12 – Sanctification   154
13 – Renovation and Glorification   171
14 – The Church   189
15 – Sacraments   220

The Marrow of Christian Ethics  (Geneva, 1712) 400 pp.  See the more detailed table of contents.

Table of Contents

Book 1 – Of Ethics and Christian Duties in General   1
Book 2 – Of Virtues Towards God   27
Book 3 – Of the Virtues and Vices that are Visible to the Neighbor   116
Book 4 – Of the Christian Duties and Virtues Respecting Oneself   227
Book 5 – Of the Affections   273
Book 6 – Of Particular Christian Duties for each Calling and State   342

Wyss, David – Disputations at PRDL

Wyss (1632-1700) was a professor of philosophy, Hebrew, theology and catechetical theology at Bern.

Rodolph, Johann R. – Christian Theology, Things of the Faith, or Things to be Believed about God and his Ways in the World and Church, under Diverse Temporary Economies  (Bern, 1714)  695 pp.  There is no table of contents in the work itself, but there is a subject index at the end.

Rodolph (1646-1718)

Table of Contents

Prolegomena

1. Of the Nature of Theology  1
2. Of Sacred Scripture  17

Christian Theology

Book 1, Of God, his Counsel & Works, in which First is the Execution of the Divine Counsel

1. Of God & his Names & Attributes  28
2. Of God the Father, Son & Holy Spirit  39
[pp. 46-7 are missing]
3. Of the Decrees of God in General, p. 46, 48
4. Of Predestination  52
5. Of the Creation of Things in General  60
6. Of the Creation of Man & his Primeval State  68
7. Of Angels in General  74
8. Of the Providence of God in General  79
9. Of the Good Angels & Evil Government  87
10. Of the Government of Man in the State of Innocency, and of the Covenant of Works  94
11. Of the Government of Man in the State of Misery, in which, First, is of the Fall of our First Parents  101
[pp. 106-7 are missing]
12. Of Original Sin, p. 106, 108
13. Of Actual Sin & Various of its Generals & Specially of the Sin Against the Holy Spirit  112
14. Of the Miseries Following Sin  122

Book 2, Of the Execution of the Special Divine Counsel in the Government of Men by the Covenant of Grace

1. Of the Testament & Covenant of Grace  128
2. Of the Sponsor & the Mediator of the Covenant of Grace  137
3. Of the Calling to the Covenant of Grace  143
4. Of Saving Faith  155
5. Of the Justification of Sin  168
6. Of the Effects of Justification, & in Particular of Adoption & Christian Liberty  181
7. Of Sanctification  188
8. Of Good Works  197
9. Of Repentance, Fasting, Prayer & Alms-deeds  202
10. Of the Perseverance of the Saints and the Certainty of Salvation  213

Book 3, Of the Economy of the Covenant of Grace Before the Exhibition of Christ

1. Of the First Promise of Grace being Made to the First Persons in Paradise  219
2. Of the Propagation, Amplification & Confirmation Made of the First Promise Before Moses  223
3. Of the Faith & Religious Worship of the Fathers Before Moses  233
4. Of the State & Prophesies of the Church under the Promise  236
5. Of the Old Testament & Covenant  241
6. Of the Moral Law, comprising the Decalogue, & its Use  249
7. Of the Ceremonial Law  272 
8. Of the Political Law of the Jews  295
9. Of the Mixture of Law & Grace & its Effects Under the Old Testament Economy  299
10. Of the Sacraments & the Sacramental Signs Under the Old Testament Economy  304
11. Of the Breadth, State & Prophecies of the Church Under the Economy of the Old Testament
12. Of the Expiration of the Old Testament & the Approach Toward Abolition  317

Book 4, Of the Economy of the Covenant of Grace Under the New Testament

1. Of the Coming of the Messiah and its Forerunner, John the Baptist  320
2. The Person & Incarnation of Christ  327
3. Of the State of Christ: of Emptying & Humiliation  345
4. Of the Death, Burial & Descent of Christ to Hell [Infernas]  355
5. Of the State of Christ: Of Exaltation in General & of the Resurrection; First, in specific, its Degree  365
6. Of the Ascension of Christ to Heaven to the Right-Hand of the Father & of the Session  374
7. Of the Mediatorial Office of Christ in General  385
8. Of the Prophetic Office of Christ  392
9. Of the Priestly Office of Christ: Where in Specific: of his Satisfaction & Intercession  397
10. Of the Kingly Office of Christ  413
11. Of the New Testament & the Prerogatives & Good Things of it  420
12. Of the Gospel & the Principal Work of It: the Calling of the Gentiles and the Judgments of God Following After upon the Jews  433
13. Of the Public Worship of the Christian Church & of the Publication of the Word of God, Especially in Prayers & Songs  444
14. Of the Sacraments in General  455
15. Of the Sacraments of the New Testament in General & of Baptism in Specific  464
16. Of the Sacred Supper  479
17. Of the Presence of the Body of Christ in the Sacred Supper & of the Errors of the Communion of Rome Around the Same  493
18. Of the Number of the Sacraments  509

Book 5, Of the Church in General & Especially of the Church of the New Testament & the Government & the Oracles of it

1. Of the Name, Nature, Attributes & Notes of the Church  515
2. Of the Head of the Church  529
3. Of the External Government, & Specifically, of the Ministers of the New Testament Church  534
4. Of the Ecclesiastical Power & Discipline  551
5. Of the Union of Churches, Synods & Councils  559
6. Of the Christian Magistrate & the Right & Office of it Around the Civil & Sacred  569
7. Of the Marriage Union  577
8. Of the Oracles of the New Testament Church  580
9. Of the Hierarchy of the Roman Church  587
10. Of the Antichrist  592
11. The Cause of Antichrist & of the Liberation with the Reformation of the Church from it  606
12. Of the Antecedents of the Last Judgment, of the Certain Coming of Christ & of the Resurrection of the Body  621
13. Of the Last Judgment  635
14. Of the Consequences of the Last Judgment, of Life Eternal & of the Consummation of the World  645
15. Of the Consummation of the World  665

An Advisory Discourse on the Sacred Ministry at the Initiatory Giving of the Hand to Theological Students  672

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Roy, Albert – Disputations at PRDL

Roy (1663-1733) was a professor of Hebrew, catechesis and theology at Lausanne.

Turretin, J.A. – All the Theological, Philosophical and Philological Works, vols. 1 (Natural Theology, Apologetics), 2 (Scripture, Com. on Rom. 11 & Thess.), 3 (Toleration, Church Hist., Orations) (Leeuwarden/Franeker, 1774-1776)  There is a table of contents at the beginning of each volume and a subject index at the end of each volume.

Turretin (1671–1737)

Beck, Jacob Christoph

Fundamentals of Natural & Revealed Theology  (Basel, 1757)

Table Contents

Prolegomena of the Various Methods of Delivering Sacred Theology  1
1. Of Theology in General  27
2. Of Natural Theology  32
3. Of the Use & Eminence of Natural Theology  39
4. Of the Existence of God  44
5. The Refutation of Atheism  78
6. Observation on the Hurtful Atheism  86
7. Observation of the Causes of Atheism  89
8. Of the System of Spinoza  92
9. Of the Attributes of God  98
10. Of the Providence of God  118
11. Of the Liberty of Man  129
12. Of Natural Religion  136
13. Of Rewards & Punishments, & of the Immortality of Souls  142
14. Of the Difference of Religions  149
15. Of Revelation & the Necessity of it  155
16. Of the Reality that to Men Divine Revelation has Befallen  161
17. Of the Truth of the Christian Religion  165
18. Arguments for the Truth of the Christian Religion  172
19. Of Miracles  179
20. Of Prophecies  192
21. Of Methods Against All Unbelievers in General, & in Specific Jews, Discussed  197
22. Against Deists, or Naturalists  220
23. Of Sacred Scripture  229

A Synopsis of Universal, Natural & Revealed Theological Institutions, Dogmatic, Polemical & Practical, having been in Use in the Lecture Room:  A Brief Theological Encyclopaedia is Given & Delineated  (Basil, 1765)  Here are the tables of contents to the Prolegomena, Dogmatics Section 1, Section 2, Polemics & Practical sections.

Beck was a professor of theology, history and Old Testament at Basel and was influenced by the philosophical rationalism of Christian Wolff.

Chavannes, Alexandre-César – Fundamentals and Elements of Christian Theology, vol. 1, 2  (Lausannae, 1771-2)  463 pp.  There is no table of contents.

Chavannes (1731-1800)

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Italian

Vermigli, Petrus Martyr – Common Places  (London, 1576; Geneva, 1624)  Here is the table of contents to the English edition which is on EEBO-TCP Phase 2.

Vermigli (1499-1562)

Zanchi, Girolamo

A Compendium of Principal Heads of Christian Doctrine  in Works, vol. 8 (Geneva, 1649), col. 621-818

Table of Contents

1. Of God  622
2. Of the Knowledge of Man & Original Sin  638
3. Of the Free-Will of Man After the Fall  643
4. Of the Grace of God, by which the Corruption of Nature is Set Free  659
5. Of the Law of the Decalogue  673
6. Of Vows  708
7. Of Faith  710
8. Of the Apostles’ Creed (The Material of Faith – The Creation of things)  724
9. Of Repentance  760
10. Of the Confession of Sins  765
11. Of Justification by Faith & of the Merits of Works  767
[Irregular Numbering of Pages Follows]
12. Of the Similarity & Difference of the New & Old Testament  796
13. Of Christian Liberty  809
14. Of Human Traditions  817
15. Of Ecclesiastical Traditions  821

Of the Nature and Attributes of God in The Theological Works, vol. 2 (Heidelberg, 1577; n.d.)  There is a detailed table of contents and subject and textual indices at the end of the volume.

Zanchi (1516-1590)

Brief Table of Contents

Book 1 – What are the Divine Names?   1
Book 2 – The Nature of God in General   49
Book 3 – The Attributes   160
Book 4 – The Attributes   326
Book 5 – The Attributes   426

Table of Contents

1 – The Holy Scriptures, the Whole Foundation of the Christian
.           Religion   57
2 – God, and the Properties of the Divine Persons   65
3 – The Foreknowledge and Predestination of God   69
4 – The Omnipotence and Predestination of God   73
5 – The Creation of the World, of Angels, the State of the First Man   75
6 – Providence and the Governance of the World   80
7 – The Fall of Man, Original Sin, and its Fruits   84
8 – The Freedom of the Will of Man after the Fall   90
9 – The Promise of Redemption and Salvation by Christ   95
10 – The Law   98
11 – Christ the Redeemer   105
12 – Of the Certainty of the Administration of Redemption,
.            Salvation and Life which has been given to the One Christ,
.            and thus the Necessity of Union with Christ in Fellowship   124
13 – The Gospel and the Abrogation of the Law by the Gospel   139
14 – The Sacraments of the New Testament   146
15 – Baptism   161
16 – The Lord’s Supper   167
17 – Faith, Hope and Love   180
18 – Repentance   185
19 – Justification   189
20 – The Freedom of the Human Will of Regenerate Men towards
.             the Good   199
21 – Good Works   205
22 – Of Invocation and Oath[s]   212
23 – The Church of Christ in General   215
24 – The Church Militant   222
25 – The Government of the Church Militant and the Ecclesiastical
.             Ministry   245
26 – The Magistrate   278
27 – The Eternal Remission of Sins in the Church of Christ   286
28 – The State of Life after Death and the Resurrection of the
.             Dead   293
29 – The Glorious Coming of the Lord Jesus to Judge the Living
.             and the Dead   299
30- Eternal Life   304

Observations [End-notes]   307

– Of the Blessedness of Heaven   311
– Of Original Sin, it is not a substance   212
– Of the Person of Christ   313 & 324
– Of Our Fellowship with Christ   324
– Of the name ‘Sacrament’   328
– Baptism is not annulled   329
– Acts 19 (about the 12 persons in Ephesus [and whether
.       they were rebaptized]) explained   332
– Of They which eat the Bread of the Lord Unworthily   348
– Whether Infants of the Faithful have Faith or Not   355
– Of Justification, and that place [Gen. 15:6]: Abraham
.       Believed God, and it was Counted to him for
.       Righteousness   356
– Also, our Justification is not only in the Remission of
.       Sins, but also Consists in the Imputation of Christ’s
.       Obedience   358
– Of the Various Ordinary Ministers in the Church besides
.       those which are Expressly Contained in the Holy
.       Writings: Archbishops, Patriarchs, etc.   359

[Series of] Theses of Some Principal Articles of the Christian Faith Against Various Heresies   393

1 – Of the One, True, Eternal God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
.          [6 Theses]   394
2 – The Nature of the One, True God: Simple and Immense
.          [26 Theses]  395
3 – The Eternal Omnipotence of the One, True God
.          [30 Theses]   400
4 – The Providence of God  [11 Theses]   406
5 – Eternal Election, Predestination and Redemption by
.           Christ’s Work  [11 Theses]   409
6 – The Resurrection of Christ from the Dead, Ascended
.           to Heaven to Sit at the Right Hand of the Father, of
.           Paul to the Ephesians, ch. 1  [84 Theses]   412
7 – The Application of Salvation by Christ, out of Eph. 1
.           [20 Theses]   436
8 – That which is Attributed to our Lord Jesus Christ after
.           the [Hypostatic] Union, and in what way it is Attributed
.           [50 Theses]   441

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Bucer, Martin – Continual Expositions of the Four Holy Evangelists, in which are Interspersed Pure Theological Common Places  (Herwagen, 1527; 1553)  The table of contents is near the beginning, immediately before p. 1.  This work has been translated into English  Buy  but is often very pricey if found.

Table of Contents

Abrogation of the Law  45.a
Adoration  10.a; 78.a
Ablation; How Far Poverty Wrenches  56.a
Anabaptism  19.a
Bearing Arms  53.b
Baptism  16.a
Baptism of Children, or Paedobaptism  19.a; 90.b; 130.b; 119.b
Power of the Keys  133.b; 145.b
Chair of Moses  164.b
Ceremonies & Liberty in External Things  45.a; 143.a
Celibacy & Marriage  130.b
Supper of the Lord  181.b
Confession  135.b
Demons  87.b
Tithes  167.b
Descent of Christ to ‘Hell’ [Inferna]  194.a
Love of God & Neighbor  163.b
Divinity of Christ  [?]10.a
Observation of the Lord’s Day  111.b
Eternal Election  76.b
Alms-deeds  58.a
Gospel  1.a; 210.a
Excommunication  146.a
Festivals  111.a  [the page number is different]
Faith  81.a
Flight in Persecution  101.b
Hell  49.a
Fasting  28.b; 65.a
Ecclesiastical Immunity  141.a
Hardening & Blindingness of Evil  63.a
Intercession of Saints  60.a
Judgment  71.a
Justice, Internal & External  119.b
Oaths  51.a
Labor of Hands  123.b
Abrogation of the Law  45.a
Christian Liberty  143.a
Free-Will  160.b
Disputes of Christians  55.b
Magistrate  54.a; 140.b; 161.a
Wages  41.a
Military Service of Christians  54.a; 140.b; 161.a
Ministers of the Church  35.a; 38.a
Mourning for the Dead  94.a
Miracles  76.a
Call to Preach  96.a
Good Works  43.a; 67.b
Prayer  58.b; 78.b; 126.b; 130.b
Obstinacy of Reprobates  106.b
Observation of Passover  180.a
Sin Against the Holy Spirit  115.a
Repentance  33.b
Power of the Apostles  72?.b
Primacy of the Roman Pontiff  135.a
Neighbor  49.a
Receiving Children  151.b
Purgatory  50.a; 85.a; 116.b
Prophecy  108.b
Divorce [Repudio]  147.a
Resurrection of Christ  195.a
Reward of Works  137.a
Sabbath & Circumcision  98.b
Satisfaction  62.a  [page number says ’61’]
Scandal  141.b
Holy Spirit & his Names  24.a
Fulfillment of Scripture  11.a
Signs & Prophetic Tokens  36.b
Difference Between the Old & New Testament  45.b; 119.b
Human Traditions  128.a
Due Return of Tribute  163.b; 141.a
Typical Expositions of Scripture, or of Types & Figures  141.a
Usury  [?]56.2
Word of God  72.a  [page number says ’71’]
Truth of the Body of Christ  97.a
Vengeance  52.a
Life Eternal  299.a  [page number says ‘199’]
Calling  5.a; 155.a
Vows  124.b

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Hyperius, Andreas

Of Theology, and the Reason for the Study of Theology  (Basel, 1559; 1582)  756 pp.

Hyperius (1511-1564)

A Method of Theology, or the Principal Common Places of the Christian Religion, vol. 1 (Books 1-3)  (Basel, 1567)   There is a summary of the work in the Preface and a detailed table of contents and textual and subject indices at the end of the volume.

Table of Contents

Book 1 – God & the Word of God, or Sacred Scripture   1.24
Book 2 – The Creature and Man   1.270
Book 3 – The Church   1.526
Book 4 – The Doctrine of the Law and the Gospel
Book 5 – Signs, or Sacraments
Book 6 – The Consumation

Ursinus, Zacharias

Theological Places  in Theological Works, vol. 1  (Heidelberg, 1612), col. 426-733  There is a detailed listing of theses covering the topics below on col. 732 ff.

Ursinus (1534-1583)

Table of Contents

Of Sacred Scripture  426
Of God  447
The Son of God is a Spiritual & Divine Person  491
The Holy Spirit is a Divine Person  497
The Father, Son & Holy Spirit are Three Persons, Truly
Distinguished in Turn From Themselves  498
The Father, Son & Holy Spirit are Equal According to Deity, & All
Essential Perfections of Deity  501
Father, Son & Holy Spirit are One Essence  522
How the Divinity of the Three Persons is Discerned  539
Of the Creation of the World   546
Of Angels  551
Of the Creation of Man  558
Of the Providence of God  570
Of Sin  605
Of Free-Will  633
Of the Divine Law  664
First Command  682
Second Command  689
Third Command  699
Fourth Command  715
Fifth Command  725
Sixth Command  729  [The End]

A Compendium of Christian Doctrine, or a Catechetical Commentary  (Geneva, 1584; Cantegribiensis, 1585)

Strigel, Victorinus

A Theological Manual, which contains tracts used in the Tyronum Theology  (Bremae, 1584)

Strigel (1524-1569) was initially a Lutheran, but towards the end of his life he accepted a position at the University of Heidelberg and accepted the reformed view of the Lord’s Supper, according to Wikipedia.

Theological Places… in which the Common Places of the Reverend Man, Dr. Philip Melanchthon are illustrated, even as the whole body of Christian Doctrine is propounded (Neapoli Nemetum: Matthaeus Harnisch, 1582)  Detailed Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Prolegomena  1
Of God  25
Of the Son of God  78
Of the Holy Spirit  163
Of Creation  213
Of the Cause of Sin  279
Of Free-Will, or the Powers of Man  324
Of Sin  426

A Synopsis of Christian Doctrine, una Cum Antithesi doctrinarum… (Jena : Tobias Steinmann, 1588)  Table of Contents

Locvs De Sacramentis Expositvs, et Illvstrissimo Principi Ac Domino, Domino Avgvsto, Dvci Saxoniae, Sacri Romani Imperij Archimarschallo, Electori, &c. Confessionis loco exhibitus à Victorino Strigelio, Anno Christi 1566. Jn fine adiuncta est eiusdem … explicatio definitionis Coenae Dominicae, in libello Examinis Theologici D.Philippi Melanchthonis traditae. (Neustadt/Haardt: Matthaeus Harnisch, 1589)

Snecanus, Gellius – A Methodical Description, or Fundamental, Principal Common Places, or the Dogmas of Scripture Concerning the Knowledge of God and Man, which is threefold in this state of life  (Harlemum, 1591)  992 pp.  There is a subject index at the end.

Snecanus (c.1540-1596)

Table of Contents

Of the Word of God, or Sacred Scripture  1
Of God & his One Essence & Three Hypostases, or Persons, Distinguished  65
Of the Principal Essential Properties of God, then the Ground [Ratione] of the Divine Essence in Itself, then a View of the Works & Favors toward Men & the Church  121
Of the Will of God  185
Of Creation in General  267
Of Good Angels  271
Of Man, in Respect of the First Creation Before the Fall  277
Of the Providence of God  299
Of the Fall & the Sin of the First Parents  331
Of Original Sin  341
An Appendix Encompassing Solutions to Some Objections that Infants
do Not Have Original Sin  360
Of Actual Sin  364
Of the Sin Against the Holy Spirit, or Unto Death  373 
Of Man after the Fall of Adam; How the Old Man, or Flesh, is Called  380
Of Free-Will  386
Of the Eternal Design of Predestination & its Instrumental Causes in the Execution of the Subordinate Counsel of God  453
Of the Execution of the Causes of Salvation & Damnation, with the Legitimate Instrumental [Medias] Causes of Them, which Subordinate Things are Executed of the Counsel of God even unto Creation & Redemption  757

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Sohn, George – Works, vol. 1 (Systematics), 2 (Commentary on the Augsburg Confession), 3 (Commentary on Certain Psalms)  (Herborne, 1591-2)

Keckermann, Bartholomaeus – A System of Scriptural Theology Furnished in 3 Books  (2nd ed. Hanau, 1607; 1610)

Keckermann (1572-1608).  See Joseph Freedman, ‘The Career and Writings of Bartholomew Keckermann (d. 1609)’  in American Philosophical Society, Vol. 141, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 305-364.

Table of Contents

Book 1
.     1 – The Nature of Theology   1
.     2 – The Essence of God   5
.     3 – The Distinction of Persons from Essence and from
.                 Themselves   54
.     4 – The Absolute Properties of God   89
.     5 – The Properties of God Relating to the Creatures   104
.     6 – Creation   121
.     7 – The Actions and Operations Arising of God   135
.     8 – The Matter of the Divine Word   165
.     9 – The Form of the Divine Word   192
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Book 2
.     1 – The Division of Theology   209
.     2 – The State of Man Before the Fall   215
.     3 – The Fall of the First Man   233
.     4 – Sin in General   246
.     5 – Original Sin   251
.     6 – Actual Sin   267
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Book 3
.     1 – Election unto Eternal Life   294
.     2 – The Person of Christ   310
.     3 – The Office of Christ in General, and in Specific: as Prophet   326
.     4 – The Priestly Office of Christ   340
.     5 – The Kingly Office of Christ   358
.     6 – The Church   370
.     7 – Justification   412
.     8 – The Sacraments, Miracles and Conversion   439

Pareus, David – Theological Collections of Universal Orthodox Theology, where also All of the Present Theological Controversies are Clearly and Variously Explained, vol. 1, 2  (1611/20)  Table of contents: vol. 1, 2

Pareus (1548-1622)

Table of Contents, vol. 1

Collection 1, Disputations

1. Theology & the Word of God  3
2. God  8
3. The Son of God Incarnate  10
4. Problems on the Office of Christ the Mediator  12
5. Holy Spirit  15
6. Creation of the World, Angels & Men  16
7. Providence of God  18
8. Sin  21
9. Free-Will  27
10. Predestination  30
11. The Gospel & Grace  35
12. Justifying Faith  39
13. Justification by Faith, Appendix on Roman Justification  44
14. Sanctification, the other Benefit of Christ, which is Regeneration & Conversion unto God  58
15. Good Works  66
16. Sacraments in General, & the False Dogma of the Papists  69
17. Baptism  77
18. Lord’s Supper  79
19. The False & Horrid Dogma of Papists & Jesuits on the Eucharist & the Sacrifice of the Mass, out of Bellarmine & the Council of Trent  85
20. Church of God  97
21. The False Dogma of the Papists on the Church & its Notes  115
22. The Government & Ecclesiastical Ministry in the Apostolic Church  121
23. Church Government Before the Popes & under the Popes, & of the Primacy of the Pope  127

Collection 2, Disputations

1. Sacred Scripture  139
2. God & the Most Holy Trinity; Solution to the Sophisms Against the Distinction of Essence & Persons  141
3. Attributes of God  148
4. Creation of the World  153
5. Good & Bad Angels  156
6. Creation of Man & his First State  159
7. Providence of God  163
8. The Fall & the First Sin of Man  166
9. Sin in General & its Distinctions  170
10. Cause of Sin  174
11. The Nature, Propagation & Effects of Original Sin  179
Note on the Origin of the Human Soul  183
12. Free-Will of Man After the Fall  188
13. Punishment of Sin, Death & the Misery of Man  193
.      Testimony of S. Scripture on the Vindicatory Justice of God  196
14. Eternal Predestination of God  198
15. Grace & the Gospel  201
16. Old & New Covenant of God  204
17. Person, Office & Benefits of the Mediator  210
18. True Divinity & Humanity of Christ  213
19. Personal Union of the Two Natures of Christ  220
20. Threefold Office of Christ the Mediator  224
21. Passion, Death, Burial & Descent to ‘Inferos’ of Christ  228
22. Resurrection, Ascension & Session at the Right Hand of God of Christ  233
23. Satisfaction & Merit of Christ the Mediator  238
24. Faith  244
25. Justification  249
26. Person, Office & Gifts of the Holy Spirit  252
27. Regeneration & Conversion [Resipiscentia]  255
28. Appendix on Regeneration & Repentance, Comprehending the False Dogma of Romanists  260
Abrogation of Auricular Confession out of Socrate  264
29. The Law, its Abrogation & Use  266
30. Good Works  268
31. Christian Liberty, Human Traditions, Adiaphora & Scandal  272
32. Prayer  277
33. True Church  286
34. False Church & its Notes  289
35. Head & Members of the Church  294
36. Primacy of the Roman Pope  300
37. Antichrist  305
38. Ecclesiastical Government of the New Testament  309
39. Ministry & Ministers of the Church & their Calling  314
40. Power of the Church about Doctrine  322
41. Power of the Church about Discipline in Upholding Laws  326
42. Power of the Church about Discipline in Enacting Censures  337
43. Vows  342
.        Note on Vows, Councils & Decrees  349
44. Sacraments in General  351
45. Baptism  357
46. Lord’s Supper  365
47. Papal Mass  376
48. The Five False Marks of the Sacraments of the Papal Church  384
49. Marriage  392
Note out of Thomas: What Promise Makes or does not Make
Marriages  400
50. Civil Magistrate  403
51. Fasting & Alms  409
52. Indulgences & Purgatory  416
53. Resurrection of the Dead & the Last Judgment  420

Collection 3, Disputations

1. Sacred Scripture  427
2. God, One & Three  431
3. Person of Christ  433
4. Threefold Office of Christ the Mediator  435
5. Providence of God  437
6. Eternal Predestination of God  440
7. Sin  442
Note on Sin: in What Way the Theologian Disputes [It]  445
8. Free-Will  446
9. Law & Gospel  449
10. Justification by Faith  451
11. Good Works  454
12. Christian Liberty  456
13. Church  459
14. Sacraments, Baptism, Holy Supper & Antichrist  461

Collection 4, Disputations

1. Sacred Scripture  457
2. God & his Saving Knowledge  469
3. Person & Incarnation of the Son of God  472
4. Office of Mediator, Against the Blasphemies of Socinus  475
5. Providence of God  479
6. Eternal Predestination of God  483
Note on Some Theses of Augustine  489
7. Sin  495
8. Free-Will of Man, a Public [Disputation]  495
The Same, Free-Will of Man, a Private [Disputation]  501
9. Law & Gospel  502
10. Justification of Man Before God  505
11. Christian Liberty  508
12. Good Works  512
13. Church  516
14. Sacraments in General, & of Baptism  521
15. Lord’s Supper  523
16. Antichrist  527

Collection 5, Disputations

1. Sacred Theology & its Principles & Parts  535
2. Books Canonical & Apocryphal  538
3. Authority & Perfection of Sacred Scripture  542
4. Perspicuity & Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, & the Judgment of Controversies  545
5. God, One & Three  549
6. Creation of Man in the Image of God  553
7. Providence of God  555
8. Conversion [Resipiscentia]  558
9. Free-Will  563
10. Law & Gospel  564
11. Person of Christ  569
12. Office of Christ the Mediator  562
13. Antichrist  575
14. Predestination  577
15. Faith & Justification by Faith From Works  580
16. Church & its Members, Head & Qualities  583
17. Notes of the Visible Church  585
18. Sacraments in General & of Baptism  588
19. Lord’s Supper & the Papal Mass  590
20. Descent of Christ to ‘Inferos’, the Resurrection from the Dead, the Ascension to Heaven & the Session at the Right Hand  593

Collection 6, Disputations

1. Person & Office of Christ  599
2. Church  605
3. Free-Will of Man  607
4. Predestination  612
5. Sin  615
6. Faith & Justification  618
7. Good Works  620
8. Judgment of Controversies in Causes of Religion  624
9. Political Magistrate  626
10. Baptism  629
11. Holy Lord’s Supper  632
12. Prayer to God  634
13. Providence of God  638
Note on the Same  641

Collection 7, Disputations

1. Sacred Scripture  647
2. God  649
3. Person & Office of Christ the Mediator  650
4. Free-Will  653
5. Faith & Justification of Man Before God  655
6. Eternal Predestination of God  657
7. Christian Liberty  661
8. Church & Councils  663
9. Sacraments in General  606
10. Baptism  673
11. Eucharist of the Lord & the Papal Mass  675
12. Conversion [Resipiscentia]  679
13. Law & Gospel  681
14. Civil & Ecclesiastical Power  683
15. Marriage  686
16. Antichrist  689
17. Prayer to God & of an Oath  692

Collection 8, Disputations

1. Sacred Scripture  697
2. God  699
3. Person of Christ  700
4. Providence of God  704
5. Free-Will of Man  706
6. Eternal Predestination of God  708
7. Justification by Faith  711
8. Christian Liberty  713
Note on the Conscience, Good & Bad  715
9. Church & Councils  717
10. Sacraments in General  722
11. Baptism  722
12. Lord’s Supper & the Papal Mass  724
13. Repentance or Conversion [Resipiscentia]  726
14. Law & Gospel  729
15. Civil Power, or the Political Magistrate  731
16. Ministry & Ministers of the New Testament Church  734
17. Antichrist  736
18. Prayer to God  739
19. Marriage  741

Collection 9, Disputations

1. Sacred Scripture  747
2. God, One & Three  749
3. Eternal Predestination of God  752
4. Free-Will  755
5. Sin  757
6. Person & Office of Christ  760
7. Justification of a Sinful Man Before God  764
8. Church  767
9. Sacraments in General  771
10. Baptism  773
11. Sacred Lord’s Supper  777
12. False Dogma of the Papists About the Lord’s Supper  781
13. Monarchical State of the Church & of Antichrist  783
14. Blessedness, the Worship of Saints & Purgatory  787
15. Creation of the World  791
16. Justifying Faith & the Merits of Works  793
Note on Merit out of Biel & Thomas of Argentina  795

Collection 10, Disputations

1. Canon, Edition, Reading, Authority, Obscurity, Interpretation & Perfection of Sacred Scripture  803
2. God  807
3. Providence of God  809
4. Free-Will  812
5. Sin in General  815
6. Person of Christ  817
7. Office of Christ the Mediator  820
8. Faith & Works  823
9. Justification of Man Before God  826
10. Christian Liberty  827
11. Erroneous & False Dogmas About the Papists’ Sacrifice of the Mass  830
12. Divine Predestination  832
13. Church of God  834
14. Sacraments in General  836
15. Sacrament of Baptism  838
16. Sacred Supper of the Lord  841
17. Antichrist  845
.       Note on the Three & a Half Years of Antichrist  848
18. Prayer to Saints  849
19. Purgatory  853
20. Law & Gospel  857
21. Matrimonial Errors of the Pontiffs  860
22. Councils  862
23. Theological Question: Whether we are Schismatics or Heretics for Making a Secession from the Roman Church?  865
24. Authority, Perspicuity & Definitive, Judicial Use of the Sacred Scriptures  868

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Table of Contents, vol. 2

Collection 1, Disputations

1. Creation of Man  3
2. Fall, or the First Sin of Man  6
3. Sin of Man in General: Original & Actual  9
4. Free-Will  13
5. Divine Providence  18
6. Person & Office of Christ the Mediator  23
7. Justifying Faith  28
8. Law of God  32
9. Gospel  37
10. Justification by Faith  40
11. Sanctification  43
12. Church  46
13. Eternal Predestination of God  50
14. Sacred Scripture  55
15. Sacraments in General  59
16. Baptism  63
17. Lord’s Supper  66
18. Good Works in Particular: Prayer, Fasting & Alms  72
19. Invocation, & a Species of it: an Oath  76

Collection 2, Disputations

1. Authority, the Canonical Books, Version & Interpretation of Scripture  83
2. Perspicuity & Perfection of Sacred Scripture  86
3. God, One & Three  89
4. Incarnation of the Son of God  91
5. Descent of Christ to ‘Inferos’  93
6. Providence of God  86
7. Sin  99
8. Predestination  103
9. Free-Will of Man  106
10. Justification of a Sinner Before God  110
11. Church  113
12. Ministry & Ministers of the Church & their Lawful Calling  117
13. Of the External or Ministerial Government of the Church-Militant  121
14. Sacraments in General  125
15. Baptism  129
16. Lord’s Supper  132
17. Regeneration, or the Conversion of Man to God  136

Collection 3

1. Canon, Versions & Reading of the Sacred Scriptures  141
2. Perspicuity & Perfection of Sacred Scripture  142
3. Of God & the Trinity of Divine Persons  143
4. Providence of God  144
5. Eternal Predestination of God  146
6. Original & Actual Sin  147
7. Grace & Free-Will  148
8. Of the Covenant, or the Harmony & Difference of the Old & New Testament  150
9. The Mediator Christ, Theses of Controversy with Pagans, Jews, Samosatenians & Sophists  151
10. The Natural Union in Christ & the Communication of Properties  153
11. Justifying Faith & Justification  155
12. The Certainty of Justification, the Necessity of Works & of Merit  156
13.  Conversion, or the Regeneration of Man  157
14. The Church & its Notes  159
15. The Calling of the Ministers of the Church  160
16. The Government of the Church, & the Primacy of the Pope  162
17. Antichrist  193
18. The Sacraments in General  164
19. Baptism  166
20. The Holy Supper of the Lord, or the Eucharist  167

Collection 4, Disputations

1. Canon & Perfection of Holy Scripture  171
2. Reading, Obscurity & Interpretation of Holy Scripture  172
3. God & the Holy Trinity  173
4. Sin  174
5. Providence of God  175
6. Divine Predestination  176
7. Grace & Free-Will  177
8. Harmony & Difference of the Old & New Testament  178
9. Christ the Mediator  179
10. Person of Christ the Mediator  180
11. Justification by Faith  181
12. Certainty of Grace & the Merits of Works  182
13. Church & its Notes  183
14. State of the Saints After this Life & of their Worship  184
15. Ministry & Ministers of the Church  185
16. Sacraments in General  187

Collection 5, Disputations

1. Canon, Authority & Perfection of Sacred Scripture  191
2. Perspicuity, Interpretation & the Judgment of Interpretation of the Sacred Scripture  192
3. God & the Sacred Trinity  193
4. Providence of God  194
5. Divine Predestination  195
6. Sin, its Cause & Effect  196
7. Grace & Free-Will  197
8. Christ the Mediator  198
9. Person of Christ the Mediator  200
10. The Communication of Properties in the Person of Christ, & of his Satisfaction  201
11. Ascension of Christ to Heaven & Session at the Right Hand of God  202
12. Antichrist  204
13. Justification by Faith  205
14. The Certainty of Faith & of Justification, & not the Perfection, Justification & Merits of Good Works  206
15. Church & its Notes  207
16. Sacraments in General  208
17. Baptism  210
18. Holy Supper of the Lord  211
19. Of Statues & Images in Church Buildings  212
20. Christian Liberty  213

Collection 6, Disputations

1. Sacred Scripture  217
2. God & the Holy Trinity  219
3. Providence of God  221
4. Eternal Predestination of God  223
5. Sin & its Cause  225
6. The Person & Office of Christ the Mediator  228
7. Grace of God & Free-Will  231
8. Communication of Properties in the Person of Christ  233
9. Satisfaction of Christ the Mediator for our Sins  237
10. Of the Burial, Descent to ‘Inferos’, the Resurrection, Ascension to Heaven & Session at the Right Hand of God of Christ  239
11. Antichrist  241
12. The Justification of a Sinner Before God  245
13. Perseverance of the Saints out of the Book of Augustine, On Good Perseverance  248
14. Merits of Good Works  252
15. Church & its Notes  254
16. Calling of Ministers of the Church  257
17. Sacraments in General  262
18. Sacrament of Baptism  264
19. Sacrament of the Eucharist, or the Supper of the Lord  267
20. Of Monks & the Monastic Perfection  270
21. Of Prayer to Saints  274

Collection 7

1. Authority, Reading, Necessity, Obscurity & Perfection of Holy Scripture  281
2. God, Creation of the World & Angels  263
3. Satisfaction of Christ for Us  285
4. Providence of God  287
5. Eternal Predestination of God  291
6. Person, Office & Benefits of Christ the Mediator  299
7. Justification by Faith  305
8. Merits of Good Works, the Restricting of Foods & Fasting
9. The Certainty of Faith, of Grace, of Justification, of Perseverance, of Salvation, Predestination & Finally of the Faithful, Against the Papistical Doubt  309
10. The Ecclesiastical Ministry, the Calling of Ministers & Ecclesiastical Discipline  315
11. Sacraments in General, in Specific of Baptism  320
12. Holy Supper of the Lord  326
13. Church  331

Collection 8, Disputations

1. Authority, Interpretation, Reading, Perfection & Necessity of Sacred Scripture  339
2. Sacred Trinity in the Unity of the Divine Essence  341
3. Providence of God & the Cause of Sin  342
4. Twofold Predestination of God: One of the Good to Glory; Another of the Evil to Punishment, Wherein is Prefixed the Title of the First Book of Fulgentius to Monimum  344
5. Person & Office of Christ the Mediator  348
6. Faith & Justification  350
7. Intercession & Prayer to Saints; & of Purgatory & Images  352
8. Antichrist  354
9. Church  356
10. Free-Will & Grace  357
11. Sacraments in General & of Baptism  359
12. Sacrament of the Supper of the Lord & of the Pontifical Mass  361
13. Sin, the Cause of Sin in General & of the First Sin  362
14. Original Sin & the Sin Against the Holy Spirit  364
15. Law & Gospel & of their Difference  366
16. Political Magistrate  368
17. Good Works  370
18. Omnipotence of God, & of its Abuse  371
19. Of Fleeing the Papacy  372
20. Continuation of Fleeing the Papacy  373
21. The Heaven of the Blessed  376
22. Perseverance of the Saints  378
23. Death of Christ for All  379
24. Of Fleeing & Taking up the Popish Mass  381
25. Of the Judgment of Controversies about Religion  382
26. Of Vows & Oaths in the New Testament  385

Collection 9, 40 Disputations on the Controversies of the Jesuit Cardinal, Robert Bellarmine

1. Of the Truths & Falsehoods of Bellarmine about the Canon of the Sacred Scriptures, Book 1, ‘Assertions on the Word of God’  389
2. Of the Truths & Falsehoods of Bellarmine about the Editions, Versions & Readings of the Sacred Scriptures, Book 2, ‘Assertions on the Word of God’  397
3. Of the Falsehoods of Bellarmine about the Interpretations of the Sacred Scriptures, Book 3, ‘Assertions on the Word of God’  403
4. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about Traditions, Book 4, ‘Assertions on the Word of God’  413
5. Of God, One & Three, out of Bellarmine, Books 1 & 2, ‘Of Christ’  421
6. Of the Incarnation of the Son of God, out of Bellarmine, Books 3-5, ‘Of Christ’  424
7. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Monarchical Church of the Apostle Peter, Book 1, ‘Of the Roman Pontiff’  430
8. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Successors of the Roman Pontiff in the Monarchical Church of the Apostle Peter, Book 2, ‘Of the Roman Pontiff’  433
9. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy on the Antichrist, Book 3, ‘Of the Roman Pontiff’  436
10. Continuation of the Antichrist  442
11. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy on the Power of the Roman Pontiff, Spiritual & Temporal, Books 4-5, ‘Of the Roman Pontiff’  447
12. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy on Ecclesiastical Councils, Books 1-2  450
13. Of the Calumnies & Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Church & its Notes, Books 3-4, ‘Of the Church Militant’  455
14. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of Clerics, Book 1  465
15. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of Monks, Book 2  467
16. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Question of the Civil Power or Magistrate, Book 3, ‘Of Laymen’  470
17. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about Purgatory, Books 1-2, ‘Of Purgatory’  476
18. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Blessedness & Canonization of the Saints, Book 1, ‘Of the Blessedness of the Saints’  482
19. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Veneration of Relics & Images, Books 2-3  487
20. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Sacraments in General, Book 1, ‘Of the Sacraments’  492
21. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Effect, Difference & Number of the Sacraments, Books 2, ‘Of the Effect of the Sacraments’  498
22. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine About the Controversy of the Sacrament of Baptism & of Confirmation  503
23. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Eucharist, Books 1-2  510
24. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Possibility of the Presence of the Body of Christ under the Appearance of the Eucharist, Books 1-2  515
25. The Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Substance, Rite, Effect, Integrity & Veneration of the Sacrament of the Eucharist, Book 4, ‘Of the Eucharist’  520
26. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Mass, Books 1-2  525
27. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Pseudo-Sacrament of Penitence, Books 1-4  530
28. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of Indulgences, Extreme Unction, Ecclesiastical Order & Matrimony  536
29. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy the Grace of the First Man, Book 1, & of the Definition & Partition of Sin, Book 1, ‘Of the Amiss.[?] of Grace’  540
30. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Cause of Sin, Book 2, ‘Of the Amiss.[?] of Grace’  546
31. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the First Sin & its Effects, Books 3-6  550
32. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of Grace & Free-Will, Books 1-2  557
33. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of Free-Will, Books 3-4, ‘Of Grace & Free-Will’  562
34. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of Free-Will in Morals & Spirituals, Books 5-6, ‘Of Grace & Free-Will’  568
35. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Nature & Proper Act of Justification by Faith, Book 1, ‘Of Justification’  572
36. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Formal Cause of Justification & of Inherent Righteousness, Book 2, ‘Of Justification’  572
37. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Uncertainty, Immutability & Inequality of Righteousness, Book 3, ‘Of Justification’  590
38. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Necessity & Righteousness of Works, Book 4, ‘Of Justification’  598
39. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Merits of Works, Book 5, ‘Of Justification’  606
40. Of the Vanities of Bellarmine about the Controversy of the Good Works in Particular: Prayer, Fasting & Alms, Books 1-3  613

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Alsted, Johann Heinrich

Scholastic and Didactic Theology Theology Exhibited, a Scholastic Method of Theological Common Places  (Hanau, 1618)

Alsted (1588-1638)

A Lexicon of Theology, in which the Terms of Holy Theology are Clearly Explained in a series of Common Places  (Prostat, 1612)  Index

Table of Contents

1. Theology  1
2. God  26
The Word Person  29
The Father  32
God the Son  36
Holy Spirit  42
What is Signified by the Term, ‘Nature of God’?  56
God is Simple  57
God is Eternal  58
Immensity  59
Blessedness of God  60
Omnipotence of God  60
Will of God  61
Omnipresence  62
Names of God in Specific  63
The Name ‘Jah’  70
The Tetragrammaton Name, or Jehovah  74
The Name ‘Elohim’  98
Drusius Jacob Montano  102
The Name ‘Adonai’  115
The Name ‘El’  115
The Name ‘Shaddai’  116
The Name ‘Jehovah Sabbaoth’  117
The Term ‘Deus’  117
God is Good  123
God is One  127
God is Just  129
Wrath of God  130
3. Actions of God  131
Of the Decree  132
Of Providence  134
Of Predestination  138
Of Election  140
Of Reprobation  141
4. Creation  143
Light  145
Day & Night  147
The Term Dawn  149
The Evening  151
Heaven  152
Earth  155
Star  157
Season  158
Beasts  160
Angels  161
Of the Various Orders & Grades of the Good Angels  176
Man  178
5. Government in General  184
6. Extraordinary Government & Miracles  185
Miracles  186
7. Trances, Ghosts, Chance & Dreams  192
Ghosts  194
Chance & Fortune  198
Dreams  200
8. Sin  202
1. Sin
Scandal  210
Dissoluteness  229
Feasts  231
2. Afflictions  237
9. Repentance  242
10. Of Jesus Christ, the God-Man, One Savior  249
The Names: ‘Jesus’, ‘Christ’  251
The Name: ‘Anti-Christ’  254
The Name: ‘Christian’  258
The Natures in Christ  259
A Sketch of Heresies, How They Stand Against the Son of
God  261
Of the Union  263
Of the Communication of Properties  264
Office of Christ  265
11. The Word of God  269
Of the Covenant & Testament  271
.        The Law of God  273
Sacrifices  278
Feast of Palms  287
Gospel  293
12. Sacraments  296
Sacraments in General  297
.        Sacraments in Specific, & First of Baptism  310
Of the Giving of Proper Names  316
The Holy Supper  323
13. Political Magistrate  335
14. Marriage  344
15. Church  348
Ecclesiastical Persons  355
The Head of the Church  355
The Other Members or Persons, whom Constitute the
Church  358
Of the Distinction of Persons, which is Used Due to the
Dignity of Persons  360
Of the Name, ‘Apostles’  361
Of the Name, ‘Paul’  362
Of the Various Ecclesiastical Orders in General  362
Of the Names ‘Heresy’ & ‘Heretic’  363
The Power of the Church  370
Of Ecclesiastical Orders  372
Of the Bishop  373
Of the Pastor  374
Of Doctors  375
Of Presbyters, or Elders  375
Of Deacons  376
Of the Rest of the Ecclesiastical Orders, which were
Formerly in Use in the Church or Which we may Meet
with in the Histories of the Church  376
Of the Various Kinds of Ecclesiastical Calling  378
Of Voting  380
Of Deposition  384
Of the Keys  385
16. Faith  387
The [Apostles’] Creed  392
The Apostolic Definition of Faith  395
17. Justification  396
A Paragraph About this Term, ‘Calling’  397
A Paragraph on Justification  399
Of the Terms, ‘Grace’ & ‘Graces’  404
Of the Term, ‘Work’  405
Of the Term, ‘Of Merit’  406
18. Prayer  409
Fasting  415
19. Resurrection of the Dead & of Eternal Life & Death  418
1. Of the Resurrection  418
2. Life Eternal  419
3. Of Death  422
A Guide [Monitio] on the Reading of the New Testament  431

Theological Common Places Illustrated by Perpetual Similitudes  (Frankfurt, 1630)

Table of Contents

Introduction  1
1. Knowledge of God  3
2. Sacred Scripture  7
3. God  16
4. Angels  27
5. Of the First Integrity of our Nature  34
6. Providence of God  38
7. Of Sin  42
8. Law of God  49
9. The Difference & Similarity of the Old & New Testament  53
10. Person & Office of Christ  56
11. Faith  61
12. Repentance  65
13. Justification  70
14. Christian Liberty  78
15. Scandal  82
16. Prayer  85
17. Predestination  94
18. Resurrection of the Body & the Way Eternal?  105
19. Church  111
20. Ministers of the Church  120
21. Ecclesiastical Discipline  125
22. Vows  129
23. Sacraments in General  132
24. Baptism  139
25. Paedobaptism  144
26. Supper of the Lord  148
27. Mass  156
28. Political Magistrate  163

Chronicles of Theological Similitudes

1. Grace of God  168
2. Antichrist  174
3. Councils  183

Logical Theology  (1625)

Table of Contents

1. Of the Mode of How One Ought to Argue in General with Respect
to Sacrosanct Scripture  3
2. Theology  10
3. Sacred Scripture  13
4. God  19
5. The Actions of God in General  27
6. The Decrees of God in General  28
7. The Decree of Providence  30
8. The Decree of Predestination  31
9. Creation  37
10. Providence  40
11. Angels  44
12. The Integrity of the First Man  12
13. Sin  50
14. Free-Will  55
15. Law of God  59
16. Marriage  62
17. The Magistrate  64
18. Gospel  66
19. Covenant of Grace  69
20. Person & Office of Christ  70
21. Church  75
22. Calling  80
23. Repentance  84
24. Faith  86
25. Justification  89
26. Christian Liberty  95
27. Sanctification & Good Works in General  97
28. Good Works in Specific  102
29. Sacraments in General  113
30. Sacraments of the Old Testament  122
31. Baptism  124
32. Supper of the Lord  128
33. Resurrection of the Body  133
34. Last Judgement  136
35. Eternal Life & Death  138

A Compendium of Theology exhibiting a Method of Scriptural Theology in 8 Parts (Hanoviae, 1624)  517 pp.  Extended table of contents

Table of Contents

Part 1, Theological Prolegomena  1
Part 2, A System of Natural Theology  87
Part 3, A Catechetical [Of First Principles] Theology  136
Part 4, Didactic Theology  188
Part 5, Polemical Theology  301
Part 6, Theological Casuistry  386
Part 7, Prophetic [Preaching & Church Polity] Theology  474
Part 8, Achromatic [Hearing the Word] Theology  513

Indices
Extended Table of Contents  518
Index of Things & Words  523
Alphabetical Index of Errors Pertaining to Polemical
Theology  560

Hommius, Festus – 70 Theological Disputations Against Papists  (Lugdunum Batavorum, 1614)  Table of contents

Table of Contents

1. Books of Sacred Scripture  1
2. Authority of Sacred Scripture  5
3. Perfection of Sacred Scripture  9
4. Perspicuity of Sacred Scripture  13
5. Interpretation of Sacred Scripture, as to the Words: or, the Versions & Reading of Sacred Scripture  16
6. Interpretation of Sacred Scripture, as to the Sense: of the Judge of Controversies of Faith  20
7. Divinity of Christ, or Accordingly, is it Possible to Call Him, ‘Auto-Theos’?  26
8. Human Nature of Christ, or of the Body & Spirit of Christ  29
9. The Mediatorial Office of Christ  34
10. The Descent of Christ to ‘Inferos’ & the Limbo of the Fathers  37
11. Of the Ideal Church Government  43
12. Primacy of the Apostle Peter & of the Pontiff of Rome in his Succession  47
13. Antichrist  51
14. The Power of the Pope in Spiritual Matters  58
15. The Power of the Pope in Temporal Matters  64
16. The Necessity, Distribution & End of Councils  72
17. The Stipulations of a Legitimate Council  77
18. Authority of Councils  84
19. Essence of the Church  90
20. Is the Church Always Visible?  And is it Able to Utterly Fall Away?  98
21. Is it Possible for the Church to Err?  103
22. Notes of the True Church  107
23. Roman Church, or of the Pontificate & of the Reforming Church  115
24. Clerics, or of Ecclesiastical Ministers & their Calling  124
25. The Orders of Ecclesiastical Ministers  132
26. Celibacy of Church Ministers  140
27. Stipends & Immunities of Church Ministers  144
28. Monastics & Hermits  149
29. Monastic Vows, Evangelical Councils & Works of Supererogation  156
30. The Magistrate & his Office About Religion  168
31. The Peace of Religion, & of Heretics  180
32. Purgatory  187
33. Suffrages, or the Prayers of the Living for the Dead, & of the Burial of the Dead  196
34. Of the Blessedness & Canonization of Dead Saints  204
35. Of the Worship & Invocation of Dead Saints  209
36. Worship of Relics  216
37. Worship of Images & of the Sign of the Cross  221
38. Worship of Consecrated Things  231
39. Church Buildings  237
40. Pilgrimages & of Processions  244
41. Festivals of Christians  251
42. Nature of Sacraments  257
43. Number, Effects & Ceremonies of the Sacraments  262
44. Baptism  267
45. Baptismal Ceremony  273
46. Confirmation  277
47. Supper of the Lord  281
48. Right Use & Effects of the Lord’s Supper & the Communion Under Both Kinds  289
49. Mass  297
50. Penitence [Poenitentia]  305
51. Oral Confession & of Satisfaction  311
52. Indulgences & of Release [Iubilaeo]  318
53. Extreme Unction & of the Order  326
54. Marriage  332
55. State of Man Before the Fall & of Paradise  341
56. Sin & its Cause  349
57. Fall of Adam  358
58. Original Sin  364
59. Grace of God  373
60. Predestination  384
61. Free-Will of Man  392
62. Justifying Faith  406
63. Justification  412
64. Certainty of Salvation  422
65. Perseverance of the Saints  429
66. Perfection of Man in this Life  437
67. Good Works in General  444
68. Prayer  455
69. Fasting  466
70. Alms  472

Mylius, Conrad – Catechetical Essays, or Homilies in the Heidelberg Catechism  (Hanau, 1618)  1,247 pp.  There is a one page subject index near the beginning of the volume.

Mylius (fl.1616-1618)

Table of Contents

1. Invitation Exhibiting the Reason  1
2. The Best Consolation  16
3. Knowledge of Our Misery  37
4. Origin & Magnitude of It  63
5. The Most Just Wrath of God  85
6. Redemption, & What it is  105
7. Mediator, Qualities He Must Have  118
8. Faith & the Faithful  135
9. God, Three & One  154
10. God the Creator  175
11. Providence of God  189
12. The Name ‘Jesus’  211
13. The Name of ‘Christ’  231
14. Who is God & our Lord?  256
15. His Conception & Nativity  275
16. Passion & Crucifixion  301
17. Death, Burial & the Descent  323
18. Resurrection  349
19. Ascension  367
20. Session at the Right Hand  390
21. [His] Return for the Judgment  411
22. Person & Office of the Holy Spirit  431
23. Church, Communion of the Saints, the Remission of Sins  456
24. Resurrection & Life Eternal
25. Justification  512
26. Good Works do not Justify  537
27. Sacraments  551
28. Baptism  576
29. Errors About Baptism  598
30. The Holy Supper  623
31. Sacred Phrases  659
32. The Papal Mass  689
33. Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven  720
34. ‘Zealous of Good Works’  Titus 2:14  755
35. Repentance  776
36. Law of God & Understanding the First Precept  805
37. 2nd Precept  843
38. 3rd Precept  880
39. Oaths  907
40. Sabbath  927
41. 5th Precept  948
42. 6th Precept  977
43. 7th Precept  1000
44. 8th Precept  1020
45. 9th Precept  1044
46. 10th Precept  1068
47. Prayer  1090
48. Introduction to the Lord’s Prayer  1114
49. First Petition  1137
50. Second Petition  1154
51. Third Petition  1170
52. Fourth Petition  1186
53. Fifth Petition  1207
54. Sixth Petition & Epilogue  1227

Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich – Christian Theology  (Hanau, 1634; 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1657)

Wendelin (1584-1652)

Table of Contents

Prolegomena

1. Of the Definition, Object, End & Efficient Principle of Theology  1
2. Of the Causes & Subject of Sacred Scripture  6
3. Of the Adjuncts of Sacred Scripture  16
4. Of the Division of Christian Theology  39

Book 1, Of the Knowledge of God

1. Of the Nature & Properties of God  40
2. Of the Threeness in Oneness and Most Simple Essence of God, or the Nature and Persons of God, or of God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit  91
3. Of the Certain Election of Men unto Eternal Life  121
4. Of Reprobation  144
5. Of Creation; where also of Angels & Men  153
6. Of the Causes & Adjuncts of Divine Providence  171
7. Of the Governance of Rational Creatures in General & in Specific, & of the Governance of Them Before the Fall  192
8. Of the Certain Obedience of Angels & of the Disobedience of Others  195
9. Of the Disobedience of the First Men, Adam & Eve, & its Effects Concerning the First Men  198
10. Of Original Sin  205
11. Of Actual Sin  227
12. Of the Punishment of Sin  233
13. Of the Governance of Rational Creatures After the Fall in General & of the Parts of Renewed Men in Specific  237
14. Of the Formation of Christ in the Maternal Womb, and of his Nativity  240
15. Of the Causes of the Personal Union  248
16. Of the Effects of the Personal Union  253
17. Of the Species of the Office of Christ [Prophet, Priest & King]  280
18. Of the Parts of the Office of Christ [Humiliation & Exaltation] 300
19. Of the Instrumental Causes & Parts of the Sacrifice, whereof the Gospel, Calling & Covenant  314
20. Of the Sacrifices & Sacraments in General  325
21. Of Sacrifice & of the Covenant in the Old [Testament]  341
22. Of the Gospel in Specific, a Word, & of Baptism  353
23. Of the Supper of the Lord  379
24. Of the Reception of the Mediator, & of Justifying Faith  448
25. Of the Justification of Men Before God  481
26. Of Sanctification  519
27. Of Glorification: of the Resurrection & Life Eternal  551
28. Of the Church  569
29. Of the Political Magistrate  623
30. Of Marriage  638

Book 2, Of the Worship of God

1. Of the Causes, Adjuncts & Distribution of Divine Worship  652
2. Of the Discrimination & Consideration of Divine Works, & of the Congruent Affection of Souls  655
3. Of Praise, the Action of Thanks & of Adoration  659
4. Of Obedience to God
5. Of Invocation, or Prayer  718
6. Of Ceremonial Worship  744

Crocius, Ludwig – A System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636)  Table of contents

Crocius (1586-1655)

Table of Contents

Prolegomena

1. The Scope of the Study of Theology  1
2. Impediments  3
3. Means & Specially of Divinity in Specific  9
4. The Primary, Introductory, Human Means, & Namely, of Philosophy  18
5. Philology  25
6. Secondary Introductory Matters: Jurisprudence & Medicine  27
7. Apprehension of Sacred Theology, & Namely, of Systematic Reading  30
8. Biblical Reading, & Specially by Name, of Knowledge Tools, or Pneumonic Devices  44
9. Pneumonic & Critical Reading  50
10. Of Academia & the Effects of Theological Study  53

Book 1, Of Sacred Theology

1. Definition of Theology  61
2. The Principles of Sacred Theology, & Namely Embracing the First  92
3. Sacred Scripture  109
4. The Properties of Sacred Scripture, & Principally by Name, of its Authority  117
5. Perfection & Sufficiency of Sacred Scripture  150
6. Clarity of Sacred Scripture  178
7. Sense & Interpretation of Sacred Scripture  185
8. Efficacy of Sacred Scripture  216
9. Parts of Sacred Scripture  230
10. The Principle of Sacred Scripture, Being Necessary from the First & to that End Being Ordained  242
11. Distribution of Sacred Theology  263

Book 2, Of the End of Man, even to be a Citizen of the Kingdom of God, the Absolute, Highest & Ultimate [End], or Eternal Blessedness  271

1. Is the Highest Good of Man Given to Any? & is it Eternal & What is it?  271
2. Of the Immortality of the Spirit out of the Light of Nature & the Confession of Heathens of Old & Those Newly Met With  279
3. Of the Immortality of the Spirit out of the Confession of the Best Philosophers & Rationalists  285
4. Of the Immortality of the Spirit out of Perspicuous Testimonies of Scripture  294
5. Of the State of the Soul After it has been Separated from the Body  296
6. Of the End of this World  312
7. Of the Resurrection of the Flesh  322
8. It is Demonstrated that the Resurrection of the Body is Denied by Some, this being in Accord with the Authority of Scripture  324
9. It is Made Good from Natural Principles that the Resurrection of the Dead is Possible  328
10. The Certain, Future, Resurrection of the Flesh is Demonstrated out of the Old Testament  336
11. The Same Certain, Future Resurrection is Demonstrated to be out of the New Testament  343
12. Of the Causes of the Resurrection  352
13. Of the Mode, Necessary Consequence & End of the Resurrection, and Certainly the Final Judgment  363
14. Of the Condition of the Judged, and Specially of Eternal Life, which Comprehends the Absolute, Greatest & Highest End of Man  370
15. Of Eternal Death  397

Book 3, Of the Subject, even Man, which is Capable of: being a Citizen of the Kingdom of God, & a Right to the Life of God & Eternal Salvation  407

1. Of Man, who is able Jointly to be Placed Under, & Made Happy by God  407
2. Of the Origin of Man in Specific, where it is Specially Treated of the Existence of God  409
3. Knowledge of God  421
4. Unity of God  434
5. Nature of God in General  441
6. The Essence & Names of God in Specific  450
7. Attributes of God  464
8. Of God’s Absolute Necessity of Existing  468
9. Infinity of God  472
10. Simplicity of God  480
11. Immutability of God  505
12. Immensity of God  516
13. Eternity of God  528
14. Life of God  538
15. Intellect of God  558
16. Will of God  584
17. The Ordained [Exsequente] Power of God  609
18. Attributes of God of a Third Kind  626
19. Blessedness of God  670
20. Attributes of God Having Been Figured  675
21. The Sacrosanct Trinity  679
22. God the Father  691
23. The Son  697
24. Holy Spirit  703
25. Creation in General  712
26. The World  742
27. Of that which was Created in the Beginning, Namely, of the Angelic Heaven, Angels & the Earth, Also of the First Night  747
28. Hexameron, or the Works of the Six Days  774
29. Of the Mode of Creating, Parts, Marriage, Possession & Principal Dignity of Man  790
30. Government of God in General  819
31. Three Great Things of the Government of God in the Flux of Created Things  838
32. Necessity & Contingency of Things  840
33. Fate  850
34. Harmony of Things  857
35. Government of the Angels  864
36. Government of Men  882
37. First State of Man  890
38. The State of Man Following the First & the Liberty of the Human Will & of its Powers in this State  905
39. Sin of Man  921
40. Permission of Sin, & its Ground, Opposition, Connections & Consequences  941
41. Of the Binding of Man to Death  951

Book 4, Of the Principles & Means of Human Salvation

1. Of the Principles of Human Salvation, & Specially, of the Grace of a Fatherly Compassion  957
2. The Grace of Redemption, whereof is Treated the Incarnation & Person of Christ  987
3. Offices of Jesus Christ  996
4. The States of Christ  1006
5. Satisfaction of Christ  1011
6. Supernatural Grace & the Grace of Having Been Sanctified by Being Called  1020
7. Means of Human Salvation, & Specially of the Law & of its Morality  1045
8. Ceremonial Law  1095
9. Judicial Law  1099
10. Gospel, where is Treated the Apostles’ Creed  1101
11. Sacraments in General  1130
12. Sacraments of the Old Testament  1136
13. Baptism  1142
14. Supper of the Lord  1154
15. Ministry of the Word  1172
16. Faith  1182
17. The Consequences & Effects of Christian Faith, where is Treated of the Union of the Faithful with God & of Evangelical Justification Before Him  [sic] 1115
18. Sanctification & Good Works  1126
19. Christian Liberty  1149
20. Of the Christian Warfare & Cross  1158
21. Prayer  1172
22. Peace of Conscience  1200

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Alting, J. Henricus

Clauberg, Johann & Martin Hund – Select Disputations, in which Controversies of Faith Against All Kinds of Adversaries (Principally the Socinians & Papists…) are Explicated  (Duisberg, 1665)

Clauberg (1622-1665) was a German theologian and philosopher.  Clauberg was the founding Rector of the first University of Duisburg, where he taught from 1655 to 1665.  He is known as a ‘scholastic Cartesian’.  Hund (1624-1666) was a professor of theology at Duisburg from 1655-†1666.

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Table of Contents

Clauberg

Resurrection of the Flesh, 1-3  1
Trinity, 1-12  13

Hund

Word of God, 1-3  98
Power of the Word & Phrases of Sacred Scripture, 1-4  117
Consequences Deducted out of Sacred Scripture,1-11  145
Disputation on the Presupposition of Sacred Scripture  227

Clauberg

Of the Fundamental Truth of Faith, 1-12  242
Of the Novelty of Dogmas in Theology, 1-2  347
Of the End that Ought to be Aimed at in Theology  387
Of the Faith of Antichrist, 1-2  406

Clauberg

Of Oral Chewing, 1-6  424
Of the Multi-Presence of the Body of Christ, 1-3  452
Of the Nature of Liberty, 1-2  477
Of the Distinction of the Divine & Human Intellect  487

Hund

Of the Image of God, 1-7  491
Of the Election of Men to Salvation  530
Of the Testaments & Covenants of God  545
Of the Justification of Man Before God in All his Estate  550

Momma, Wilhelm – Theological Praelections: Of the Coming of Shiloh, Gen. 49:10, and of Various Heads of Theology  (Amsterdam, 1683)  After the treatise on Gen. 49:10, here is the main table of contents.

Momma (1642-1677) was a professor of theology at Hamm, Germany.

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Table of Contents

Explication of the Prophecy of Jacob, Gen. 49:10  1
Of Theology  1
Of Scripture, & in Specific of the Necessity of the Word of God  5
Of the Authority of Scripture  11
Of the Canon  23
Of the Versions of Sacred Scripture  31
Of the Perfection of Sacred Scripture  36
Of the Perspicuity of Sacred Scripture  43
Of the Supreme Judge of Controversies  50
Of the Testimony which the Spirit Signifies in the Minds of Men to the Divinity of the Sacred Scriptures  55
Of God  61
Of God, One & Three  123
Of the Works of God, & in Specific, of Creation  155
Of Angels in General  233
Of Sin, even of the Angels & of Men  241

Melchior, Johann – The Fundamentals of Didactic Theology: Aphoristic Summary Truths joined together with an Exposing of the Sinew of Today’s Errors  (Herborne, 1685)  369 pp. There is a table of contents after the prefaces and a Scripture index at the end.

Melchior (1646-1689)

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Table of Contents

Preliminary Chapter – Of Theology & its Chief Principle, Sacred Scripture  1

Book 1, Of the Covenant of Nature & Works

1. Of God  25
2. Of Creation & of the Government of Things  48
3. Of the Creation of Man & his Primeval State  62
4. Of Angels  75
5. Of the Corruption of the Human Race  85

Book 2, Part 1, Of the Business of Grace in General

1. Of the Author of Grace, God, Father, Son & Holy Ghost  102
2. Of the Eternal Counsel of Grace & Wrath  119
3. Of the Undertaking [Sponsione] of the Son & the Covenant of Human Salvation [Pactum Salutis]  134
4. Of the Bond [Pactione] of the Covenant [Foederis] of Grace by Calling & Faith  143
5. Of the Justification of a Sinner  156
6. Of the Sanctification of a Sinner  166
7. Of the Communion of the Church & the Use of the Seals of the Covenant  180
8. Of the Inception of Glorification After Death  193

Book 2, Part 2, Of the Varied Dispensation of the Covenant of Grace by the Differences of Times

1. Of the Time of Promise  200
2. Of the Old Testament & Covenant  217
3. Of the Decalogue  232
4. Of the Law of Precepts in Conditions [Placitis]  247
5. Of the Benefits of Grace Under the Old Testament  257
6. Of the Coming of the Son of God in the Flesh  266
7. Of the State of Christ: of Emptiness & Exaltation  275
8. Of the Threefold Office of Christ & its Administration  285
9. Of the New Testament  297
10. Of the Public Worship of the Christian Church  311
11. Of the Government of the Church  326
12. Of the Universal Conduct of the Faithful  341
13. Of the Varied Form & Reason of the External State of the New Testament Church  351
14. Of the Glorification of the Consummated Church  361

Lent, Johann a – Of Modern Jewish Theology  (Herborne, 1694)  The table of contents is at the front.

Lent (1654-1696)

Table of Contents

1 – Theology, Religion and Articles of Faith   1
2 – The Twofold Principle of the Jewish Religion: Sacred Scripture,
.           or the Law Written, and the Oral Law comprehended in the
.           Talmud, the reason of all others   33
3 – God; the Essence, Names and Attributes of God   71
4 – The Trinity of Persons in the Divine Essence   104
5 – The Divine Decree, Election and Reprobation   142
6 – The Creation of All Things   170
7 – The Providence of God   209
8 – Angels   241
9 – Of Man in the State of Integrity and Formed in the Image of God   287
10 – Of Man made Destitute by Sin   325
11 – The Free Will of Sinful Man   368
12 – Of Man Restored by Grace, or the Reconciliation of a Sinner
.            to God by the Messiah   378
13 – The Justification and Conversion of a Sinful Man out of his
.            own Works, and of other Means   407
14 – The Observance of the Mosaic Law at the Price of 613 Precepts   443
15 – The Church   511
16 – The Sacraments   555
17 – The Last State of Man and the Condition of Souls after this Life   582
18 – The Resurrection of the Dead   608
19 – The Last Judgment, of Eternal Life and Death   660

Marck, Johannes à – A Compendium of Christian Theology, Didactic and Elenctic  (Amsterdam, 1696; 1722)

Marck (1656-1731)

Table of Contents

1 – Of the Name and Definition of Theology   1
2 – Of the First Principle [Principio] of Theology, or Sola Scriptura   18
3 – Religion   60
4 – Of the Name, Essence and Attributes of God   70
5 – The Persons of the Trinity   99
6 – The Divine Decrees   120
7 – The Predestination of Men to Salvation or Damnation   129
8 – The Divine Creation of the World   150
9 – Good and Bad Angels   171
10 – The Actual Providence of God   189
11 – The Worship of God and the Rule of His Law   200
12 – The Decalogue and of Each of its Precepts   229
13 – The Creation and Nature of Man   262
14 – The First State of the Integrity of Man, and a view of the Image
.            of God and the Covenant of Works   276
15 – The Sin of Men, and its Various Kinds   294
16 – The Various Penaltis of Human Sin   325
17 – The Covenant of Grace, the Gospel, and its Various
.            Economies   333
18 – The Mediator of the Covenant of Grace   347
19 – The Person of Jesus Christ   363
20 – The Three-fold Office of Christ the Mediator: Prophetic,
.             Priestly and Kingly   386
21 – The Two-fold State of Jesus Christ: of being Emptied, and
.            of Exaltation   420
22 – The Ordinances [officiis] of the Covenant of Grace: Faith
.             and Repentance   446
23 – The Effectual Calling of the Elect   468
24 – The Justification of the Elect Before God   477
25 – Sanctification and Good Works   497
26 – Prayer, Fasting, Set Hours, Alm[s], Vow[s]   510
27 – The Certain Preservation of the Elect   537
28 – Regeneration, Adoption, Reconciliation and Liberty   541
29 – The Sacraments of the Covenant of Grace; in particular:
.             Circumcision, Pascha [Passover & Easter] and ones
.             falsely named as such from the New Testament   551
30 – The Holy Baptism of Christians   578
31 – The Holy Supper of the Lord   604
32 – The Covenant Joining God and the Church   627
33 – The Varied Government [or Reign] of the Church   655
34 – The Blessed Glorification of the Elect   696

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French Reformed

Boquin, Petrus – Exegesis of Divine and Human Fellowship  (Heidelberg, 1561)

Boquin (post 1518-1582)

Ramus, Petrus – Commentary on the Christian Religion  (Frankfurt, 1576; 1594)

Ramus (1515-1572)

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Table of Contents

Book 1

1. What Theology is, & Whether the Total Doctrine of Salvation is Contained in the Sacred Letters?  6
2. The Division of Theology & of Faith  10
3. Of God  12
4. Of God the Father & his Omnipotence  16
5. Of the Creation of the World  18
6. Of the Fall of the Angel[s] & of Man  22
7. Of the Providence of God  25
8. Of Predestination  28
9. Of Jesus Christ the One Son of God, our Lord  33
10. Of the Conception & Nativity of Christ  41
11. Of the Life of Christ from the Nativity to the Passion  43
12. Of the Passion, Cross & Death of Christ  46
13. Of the Burial of Christ  53
14. Of Christ’s Descent to ‘Inferos’  54
15. Of the Resurrection, Ascension & Last Judgment  58
16. Of the Ascension into Heaven  61
17. Of the Session to the Right Hand of the Father  63
18. Of the Last Judgment  67
19. Of the Holy Spirit  69
20. What is the Church of God & How has it been Sanctified?  75
21. What is the Catholic Church?  78
22. Of the Communion of the Saints  80
23. Of the Remission of Sins  83
24. Of the Resurrection of the Flesh  85
25. Of Eternal Life  89

Book 2  [Of the Decalogue]

1. Of Justification by Faith & of Free-Will  96
2. Of the Preface of the Law  100
3. Of the First Precept, unto the Worship of God  104
4. Of the Second Precept, Against Idolatry  111
5. Of the Third Precept, Against a Vain Oath  124
6. Of the Fourth Precept, unto the Sanctification of the Sabbath  133
7. Of the Fifth Precept, unto Honoring Parents  143
8. Of the Sixth Precept, Against Murder  152
9. Of the Seventh Precept, Against Adultery  161
10. Of the Eighth Precept, Against Stealing  172
11. Of the Ninth Precept, Against Lying  180
12. Of the Tenth Precept, Against Covetousness  187

Book 3  [Of Prayer]

1. How Does Prayer Wash Away Law-Offences & What Great Power Does it Have?  203
2. How is Prayer the Gift of God & How by it were the Hebrews, through the Glory of God, & Christians, by Christ Informed?  205
3. Of the Form of Prayer & its Division  211
4. Why at the Beginning is God Adored in the First & Second Petitions?  213
5. Of the Sanctification of the Divine Name, According to the Third Petition  217
6. Of the Petition for the Pure Kingdom of God in the World, According to the Fourth Petition  219
7. Of the Prayer for Bread, According to the Petition of the Second Table  225
8. Of the Remission of Sins, Against the Allowing of Part of the Prerogatives of the Law, Where is Treated of Repentance  236
9. Of Temptation, According to the Tenth Precept  244
10. Of the Epilogue of the Prayer, of the Praise of God  248
11. Of the Place, Time & Way of Prayer  250

Book 4

1. What is a Sacrament?  257
2. Of the End of the Sacrament out of the Old Testament  261
3. Further, of the End of the Sacrament from a Military Seal [Sacramento]  264
4. What the Two Sacraments Are, Baptism & the Supper  268
5. Of Baptism & its First End  271
6. Of the End of Baptism out of the Old Testament  278
7. Of the End of Baptism from the Dialogue of Christ & Nicodemus  280
8. What is the Supper  284
9. The First End of the Supper  290
10. Of the End of the Supper by the Interpretation of Christ Himself  196
11. The First Refutation of the Bodily Presence, by its incompatibility with the First Supper  305
12. The Second & Third Refutations of the Bodily Presence, out of it being of the Same Kind as Baptism, & from the Analogy to the Hebrew Passover  310
13. The Fourth Refutation of the Bodily Presence, by the Consensus of the Primitive Church  314
14. Against the Fall-Back Argument from the Figures of the Sacrament  317
15. Against the Other Fall-Back Argument from the Omnipotence of God about Physical Bodies  323
16. Against the Third Fall-Back Argument, from the Incomprehensible Mode of the Body of Christ & of the Bodily Presence  330
17. Of the Papal Mass  335
18. Of the Calumnies Against Christians in the Issue of the Supper, namely, of Bread-Worship, being Exotic & of it being from Humanly Devised Words  340
19. Exhortation to a Consensus for Christian Peace  343

Virel, Matthew – A Compendium of the Christian Religion  (1587)  The Latin table of contents at the front of the work is more detailed than what is below.  There is a subject index at the end.  The work is in a dialogue format.

Virel (1561-1595)

Table of Contents

Book 1
.     1 – The Knowledge of God   1
.     2 – The Knowledge of Man   6
.     3 – The Knowledge of Christ   10
.     4 – Of Faith   4
.                 An Expository Paraphrase on the Apostles’ Creed   48
Book 2 
.     1 – Of Good Works   51
.                 On the First Table of the Law   54
.                 On the Second Table of the Law   89
.                 A Summary of the Law, Mt. 22:57   111
.     2 – Of Prayer   127
.                 An Explication of the Lord’s Prayer   130
Book 3
.     The Ministry of the Word   149
.     Of the Sacraments   165
.     Of Baptism   169
.     Of the Lord’s Supper   173
A Whole Sum of the Christian Religion   182

Tossanus, Sr., Daniel

Theological Aphorisms of True Religion, Containing the Most Powerful Heads of Christian Doctrine, Giving Again the Orthodox Confession of the Palatinate Churches  (Heidelberg, 1600)

Table of Contents

[89] Theses of True Religion
Augustine on True Religion

Theological Aphorisms Contra Some Heresies, Taken out of the Espitle of Paul to the Philippians  (Heidelberg, 1590)

Table of Contents

Contra Arians
Contra Pelagians & Semi-Pelagian, Papist Monks
Contra Ubiquitarians
.      The Exceptions of Ubiquitarians

Theological Assertions Contra Anti-Trinitarians: Without Contradiction God is Said to be Three & One (Heidelberg, 1593)  90 Theses

Theological Assertions which Briefly Display the Roman Church (Heidelberg, 1601)  19 Theses

Theological Axioms Contra the Sacrifice of the Mass, Chiefly Taken out of the Epistle to the Hebrews, with a Brief Refutation of the Exceptions of the Jesuits (Smesmannus, 1591)  109 Theses

Theological Axioms on the Sacraments in General (Heidelberg, 1600)  26 Theses

Brief Theses & Antitheses on these Four Heads: the Lord’s Supper, the Person of Christ, Baptism, Predestination…  (Heidelberg, 1594)

Table of Contents

On the Lord’s Supper

In the Saxony & Misnica Visitation were these Theses from Some Ubiquitarian Doctors, Here They are Orderly Displayed & in Some Places Edited  [6 Theses]

Affirmative Theses of the Orthodox on the Lord’s Supper Opposite Them  [16 Theses]

Negative Theses by Ubiquitarians on the Lord’s Supper  [6 Theses]

Negative Theses of the Orthodox on the Lord’s Supper Contra the Errors of the Ubiquitarians  [10 Theses]

On the Person of Christ

Affirmative Theses of the Ubiquitarians on the Person of Christ  [4 Theses]

Affirmative Theses of the Orthodox on the Person of Christ  [5 Theses]

Negative Theses of the Ubiquitarians Contra the False & Erroneous (They Say) Doctrine of the Calvinists, Chiefly About the 3rd & 4th Articles  [6 Theses]

Negative Theses of the Orthodox on the Person of Christ  [15 Theses]
.       Cyril to Theodosius on the Right Faith

On Baptism

Affirmative Theses on Baptism by the Ubiquitarians  [6 Theses]

Affirmative Theses of the Orthodox on Baptism  [9 Theses]

Negative Theses on Baptism by the Ubiquitarians on this False & Erroneous Doctrine (the Visitors say) of the Calvinists  [6 Theses]

Negative Theses of the Orthodox on Baptism  [10 Theses]

On Election & Predestination

Four Articles of the Saxo-Misnica Visitation on Gratuitous Election & Eternal Predestination.  Affirmative Theses by the Ubiquitarians  [4 Theses]

Affirmative Theses of the Orthodox on Election & Predestination  [10 Theses]

Negative Theses of the Ubiquitarians on Election & Predestination Contra them which are Called the Calvinists  [4 Theses]

Negative Theses of the Orthodox on Predestination.  These Errors We Reject.  [9 Theses]

Theological Theses on the Papacy, Which is Averse to the Evangelical Church (Heidelberg, 1598)  [75 Theses]

Tossanus Sr. (1541-1602) was a French Reformed theologian and professor of New Testament at Heidelberg.  Tossanus has other works of theological theses on more subjects at PRDL.

Chandieu, Antoine de – Theological Works (Geneva, 1592; 1620)  There are indices at the end of the volume.  Has a commendation by Beza.

Chandieu (1534-1591)

Tilen – An Ordered Arrangement of Theological Disputations held in the Academy of Sedan, vol. 1, 2  (1607, 1611)

Tilen  (1563-1633)

Table of Contents, vol. 1

1. Overview Theses of the Whole Work
2. Origin of the Sacred Scripture
3. Authority of the Sacred Scripture
4. Number of the Canonical Books & Notes of Apocryphal Works
5. Perfection of Sacred Scripture & the Detriments & Testing of Unwritten Traditions
6. Interpretation of the Words of Sacred Scripture
7. Interpretation of Things, or of the Varied Sense of Sacred Scripture
8. Right & Authority of Interpreting Sacred Scripture
9. God
10. Divine Attributes in General
11. Incommunicable Attributes
12. Communicable Attributes, & Firstly of the Life, Knowledge & Truth of God
13. Will of God
14. Love, Grace & Compassion of God
15. Justice, Wrath & Hatred of God
16. Power of God
17. Providence of God
18. Predestination
19. God, One Essence, Three Persons
20. God the Father & Son
21. Holy Spirit
22. Creation in General
23. Angels in General
24. Good Angels
25. Evil Angels
26. Creation of Bodily Things
27. Man
28. Faculties of a Rational Soul
29. Origin of a Rational Soul
30. Immortality of a Rational Soul
31. Image of God in Man
32. Original Righteousness
33. External State of the First Man
34. Law in General
35. Mosaic Law
36. Preface of the Decalogue
37. The First Precept of the Decalogue, First Disputation, which is of Faith
38. The Same, Second Disputation, which is of Hope
39. The Same, Third Disputation, which is of Love
40. Second Precept
41. Third Precept, First Disputation
42. The Same, Second Disputation, which is of Vows
43. Fourth Precept
44. Fifth Precept
45. Sixth Precept
46. Seventh Precept, First Disputation
47. The Same, Second Disputation, which is of Marriage
48. Eighth Precept
49. Ninth Precept
50. Tenth Precept
51. Ceremonial Law
52. Judicial Law
53. Sin in General
54. The First Sin of the Devil & of Man
55. Original Sin
56. Actual Sin
57. Free-Will of Man in General
58. The Same, in Specific
59. Of the Bad of Punishment

Table of Contents, vol. 2

1. Incarnation of the Son of God  1
2. Effects of the Hypostatic Union  15
3. Nativity of Christ out of the Virigin  25
4. Obedience to the Mosaic Law out of Christ Having been Presented [at the Temple]  36
5. The Baptism, Passion & Death of Christ  47
6. The Descent to ‘Inferos’  58
7. Resurrection of Christ  70
8. Ascension of Christ into Heaven  80
9. Session of Christ at the Right-Hand of the Father  90
10. Office of Christ in General  98
11. Prophecy of Christ  108
12. Priesthood of Christ  115
13. Kingdom of Christ  121
14. Of the Church: What is its Nature?  128
15. Of the Church: Is it Able to Fall Away or Err?
16. Authority of the Fathers  147
17. Note of the Church  168
18. Government of the Church: Of Extraordinary Ministers  177
19. Of Extraordinary Ministers  188
20. Of Ordinary Ministers  198
21. Of Ordinary Ministers: Presbyters & Deacons  208
22. Origin & Growth of Good Churches  217
23. Celibacy of Ecclesiastical Ministers  228
24. Immunity of Ecclesiastical Ministers  238
25. Common Government of the Church: the Calling of Ministers  249
26. Power of the Church in Judging Controversies of Faith  260
27. Power of the Church in how it Ought to Constitute Good Order  271
28. Power of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction  281
29. Power of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction: Polemical  291
30. Councils: Of the Nature of Them  305
31. Councils: Of the Authority of Them  315
32. Political Government of the Church  324
33. Private Government of the Church  335
34. The False Church: the Uncovered Hosts of Christ  345
35. The False Church: the Dissimulating Hosts of Christ  355
36. Antichrist: 1. What is Antichrist?  365
37. Antichrist: 2. What is Antichrist  377
38. The Body of Antichrist, or the Antichristian Church  394
39. The Calling of Men to Salvation  416
40. Justifying Faith  428
41. Justification: of its Efficiency & End  442
42. Justification: of its Matter & Form  456
43. The Certainty, Immutability & Equality of Justification  469
44. Christian Liberty  484
45. Sanctification  493
46. The Necessity & Perfection of Good Works in the Justified  506
47. Works of Supererogation  518
48. The Merits of Good Works  532
49. Prayer  544
50. Prayer: Polemical  557
51. Lord’s Prayer  573
52. Place & Time of Prayer  585
53. Fasting  596
54. The Covenant  610
55. Sacraments in General  620
56. Effects of the Sacraments  635
57. The Similarity & Difference of the Sacraments of Both Testament  653
58. Number of the Sacraments  668
59. Baptism  683
60. Baptism: Polemical  694
61. The Supper of the Lord  711
62. The Errors about the Efficiency & End of the Lord’s Supper  725
63. Errors about the Matter & Form of the Lord’s Supper  744
64. Sacrifice of the Mass  764
65. Purgatory  780
66. Resurrection  795
67. Last Judgment & the State of the Future World  810
68. Eternal Life  829

Chamier, Daniel – A Body of Theology, or Theological Common Places  (Geneva, 1653)

Chamier (1564–1621)

Table of Contents

Book 1

1. Name of Theology & its Genera  1
2. Theological Science is Revealed  2
3. Subject & End of Theology  3
4. Heresy
5. Existence of God  4
6. Revelation of Mysteries  6
7. Use of Revelation  7
8. Authority of Revelation, Canonical & Apocryphal Books  8
9. Are the Scriptures God-Breathed?  9
10. The Authority of Scripture is from Where?  11
11. Is Scripture a Rule of Faith?  14
12. Is the Church a Rule of Faith  17
13. Is the Pope a Rule of Faith  20
14. Perfection of Scripture  23
15. Necessity of Traditions  25
16. Number of the Canonical Books  28
17. Apocryphal Books  30

Book 2

1. The Scriptures are to be Collected from All [into a Canon]  36
2. Are the Sacred Books to be Translated into Vulgar Languages?  41
3. The Authority of the First Edition  48
4. The Authority of the Septuagint & Latin Editions  51
5. Sense of Scripture  56
6. The One Sense of Scripture  57
7. The Harmonious Sense of Scripture  59
8. Perspicuity of Scripture  61
9. Interpreter of Scripture  66
10. The Literal & Etiological Explication of Scripture  69
11. The Causes of Various Senses  69
12. General Interpretive Rules  70
13. Interpretation of Single Places  71
14. Interpretation out of the Context  73
15. Of Clear Places  74
16. Of Similar Places  75
17. The Analogy of Faith  76
18. The External Interpretative Rule  77
19. Application  79

Book 3

1. Various Grades of Knowing God  81
2. Of the Mode of Grasping God  82
3. Names of God  83
4. Of the One God  84
5. What is God  85
6. Attributes of God  87
7. Intellect of God  87
8. The Particular & Universal Knowledge [Cognitione] of God  88
9. According to What Mode is the Knowledge of Things in God?  89
10. Contingencies, by what Mode are they Known by God?  90
11. Will of God  92
12. The Efficacious Will of God  93
13. Providence & Predestination  96
14. Omnipotence of God  98
15. Blessedness of God  100
16. Trinity  100
17. Of the Mode of Speaking of the Trinity  101
18. Person  103
19. Consubstantial  104
20. Three Persons  106
21. Distinction of Persons  109
22. Of the Word & Image  111

Book 4

1. Creatures  114
2. Of a Place  115
3. Free-Will  120
4. Angels  123
5. Creation of Man  125
6. Image of God & the Nature of a Soul  127
7. Origin of the Soul  132
8. Of Good & Evil  133
9. The Sin of Angels & Men  135
10. Original Sin  137
11. Concupiscence  141
12. Punishments  143
13. The inequality of Sins  147
14. The Virgin  149
15. The Providence of God About Evil  152
16. The Predestination of God in General  156
17. Reprobation  159
18. The Highest Cause of Predestination  164

Book 5

1. Of the Natures of the Mediator  167
2. Hypostatic Union 170
3. Communication of Properties  172
4. The Properties of Human Nature  176
5. Of Faith & the Knowledge of Christ  178
6. The Mediator  182
7. Of the Mediator, According to Which Nature?  183
8. Of the Efficacy of the Mediator  190
9. Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ  193
10. The Descent of Christ to ‘Inferos’  204
11. Of Christ the Only Mediator  211
12. The Merits of Christ  220
13. Whether Christ Merited Anything Himself?  221
14. In What Manner Christ Merited for All?  222
15. Limbo of the Fathers  225
16. Definition of Sanctification  228
17. Cause of Sanctification  230
18. Of Concupiscence in the Regenerate  233
19. Of the Fulfillment of All the Precepts  236
20. The Imperfection of Single Good Works  239
21. Repentance  243
22. Faith  246
23. Faith in the Intellect  248
24. Faith in the Will  250
25. Faith & Works  251
26. Hope of Salvation  254
27. The Abiding of Faith  261

Book 6

1. What Then are Good Works?  265
2. Obedience of the Moral Law  266
3. The Ceremonial & Political Law  268
4. The Human Political Law  270
5. Whether the Political Power is Subjugated to the Ecclesiastical Power?  274
6. Of the Power of the Church in Upholding its Laws  280
7. Vows in General  284
8. Of Religious Undertakings Due to a Vow  287
9. Of the Vow of Poverty  290
10. Of Monastic Obedience  293
11. Of the Vow of Chastity  294
12. Christian Righteousness  299
13. Merit  302
14. Congruous Merit  305
15. Condign Merit  306
16. The Name of Justification  310
17. Imputed Righteousness  317
18. Justification by Faith Alone  320
19. Remission of Sins  324
20. Retention of Punishments  326
21. Of Satisfactions  330
22. Of Blessedness  333
23. State of Souls  336
24. Purgatory  338
25. Suffrages [for the Dead]  349
26. Of the Testimonies of the Fathers for Purgatory  352
27. Of the Returning of Souls [as Ghosts]  355
28. Resurrection  357

Book 7

1. Name & Properties of a Sacrament  360
2. Definition of a Sacrament  365
3. Of the Genera of the Sacramental Signs  368
4. Of the Spoken & Consecratory Word  369
5. Of the Intention of the Minister  371
6. Of the Efficacy of the Sacrament  373
7. Of the Character  380
8. Of the Efficacy of the Old Sacraments  382
9. Of the Number of Sacraments  387
Confirmation  388
Repentance  389
Extreme Unction  392
Ordination  395
Marriage  397
10. Baptism  400
11. Efficacy of Baptism  402
12. Necessity of Baptism  406
13. Of the Obligation of Baptizing Infants  410
14. Of the Ministry of Baptism  411
15. The Baptism of John  413
16. The Baptism of Heretics  417
17. The Rites of Baptism  418
18. Names of the Eucharist  419
19. Of the Matter of the Eucharist Having Been Removed  421
20. Of the Private Mass  423
21. Of Breaking Bread & Giving into the Hands  428
22. Of Which Kind?  [Both Kinds]  429

Index of Things & Words

Jesuit Epistles  [To & From]

Maresius, Samuel

A Theological Colloquium, or, a Brief System of Universal Theology, Comprehending Eighteen Disputations Held in Gronigen (2nd ed. Groningen, 1649)  The table of contents is at the end.

Maresius (1599-1673)

Table of Contents

1. Of the Nature of Theology & its Chief Principle: even Scripture  1
2. Of the Nature & Attributes of God  12
3. Of the Sacrosanct Trinity  24
4. Of the Decrees, Providence & Predestination of God  38
5. Of the Creation of the World, Angels & Men  50
6. Of Sin & the Punishment of Sin  63
7. Of the Law of God  77
8. Of the Covenant of Grace & the Free-Will of Man  95
9. Of the Person & State of Jesus Christ  111
10. Of the Office of the Mediator  127
11. Of Calling, Faith & Justification  145
12. Of Sanctification & Good Works  167
13. Of Repentance & Christian Liberty  185
14. Of the Glorification of the Saints & the Condemnation of the Ungodly  200
15. Of the Name & Parts of the Church  219
16. Of the Form, Notes & Adjuncts of the Church  242
17. Of the Contraries to, & Hosts of the Church  263
18. Of the Sacraments  274

The Hydra of Socinianism Expunged, vol. 1 (God & Attributes, Works of), 2 (Christian Religion, Precepts of Christ), 3 (Groningen, 1651)  Tables of contents: 1, 2 (vol. 3 has no table of contents, though it does have indexes)

Molina, Cappel, Ramburtio, Maresio, Calvino, Le Blanc, Le Vasseur, Alpaeo – A Collection of the Theological Disputations held at Various Times in the Academy of Sedan, vols. 1 (Molina, Cappel), 2 (Ram., Mar., etc.)  (Geneva, 1661)  The table of contents is after the prefaces of each volume.

Du Moulin (1568-1658); Cappel (1570-1624); Maresius (1599-1673); Le Blanc (1614-1675); Le Vasseur (1620-1672).

Table of Contents, vol. 1

Peter Du Moulin

1. Sacred Theology  1
2. The Highest Judge of Controversies, part 1  25
3. Part 2  39
4. Part 3, Of the Judge of the Sense of Scripture & the True Interpretation of It  47
5. The Perfection of Scripture Against the Traditions of the Roman Church, part 1  59
6. Part 2  70
7. Part 3  79
8. One God & Three Persons  89
9. Omniscience of God  94
10. Will of God, part 1  102
11. Part 2  108
12. Providence of God, part 1  116
13. Part 2  124
14. Creation of the World & the Death of it  132
15. Angels in General, part 1  138
16. Part 2, Good Angels  147
17. Part 3, Evil Angels  155
18. Image of God in Man  164
19. State of Innocency, or of the Furnishings of the Body & Soul of Man Before the Fall  170
20. Evil & Sin  178
21. Original Sin, part 1: Is there Original Sin?  In Whom is it & is it Removed in Baptism?  Nor is the Virgin Mary Immune from This.  186
22. Part 2, What is Original Sin, with a Refutation of the Sentences of the Ancients, & even the Papists & Arminians about this Question  194
23. Part 3, By What Means is the Bond [Pacto] of Original Sin Transmitted to Posterity?  Even of its Punishment & of the Limbo of the Papists  203
24. Mortal & Venial Sin  212
25. Free-Will, part 1  217
26. Part 2  229
27. Of Laws in General, part 1: Of Divine Laws in Specific  240
28. Of Human Laws  249
29. The Worship of the One God  255
30. Of Images & Idols, & their Worship, part 1: Of the Origin & Use of Images, & is it Divine Law unto God to Put Down an Idol?
31. Part 2, Are Images to be in Church Buildings?  & What is the Pontiff’s Declaration about the Adoration of Them?  275
32. Part 3, Of Idol-Worship & the Adoration of Images, & of the Contentious & Uncertain Declaration of the Pontiffs about it  282
33. Part 4, Of the Authority of Scripture Against the Adoration of Images & the Testimony of the Ancients Against them  292
34. Part 5, Of the Doctrine & Discord of the Pontiffs about the Adoration of Images & of the True Declaration of Scripture with the Confirmation of the Testimonies of the Ancients  300
35. Part 6, Where the Arguments of the Pontiffs for the Worship of Images are Shaken Off & Refelled  309
36. Of the Worship of Creatures & of the Prohibiting of the Adoration & Invocation of Angels  319
37. Of the Worship of Saints, part 1: Of True & False Saints; What are the Marks of the Roman Church, & How to Discern Them  334
38. Part 2, Of the Canonization of Saints  343
39. Part 3, Whether the Saints, Possessors of Glory, Pray for Us?  & Whether They are Always Heard of God?  357
40. Part 4, Do the Saints in Heaven Know the Heart & See that which is Undertaken on Earth?  366
41. Part 5, Are the Saints our Mediators & are they Entitled for us & do they make Satisfaction for us?  375
42. Part 6, in which the Objections & Arguments of the Adversaries for the Adoration & Invocation of Saints are Dissolved  385
43. Relics of the Saints & of the Worship of Things, part 1  394
44. Part 2, in which the Religious Worship & Adoration of Relics are Torn Away by the Authority & Reasons of Scripture, with the Judgment of the Ancients on this Controversy  401
45. Part 3, in which are Dissolved the Arguments of Adversaries & the Origin & Growth of this Error  411
46. Vows  419
47. Obedience & Power, also the Vow of Monastic Obedience  425
48. The Sabbath & Festival Days  430
49. Celibacy & Marriage  435
50. Of Repudiations, Divorces, Desertion & the Dissolution of Marriage, part 1  442
51. Part 2  448
52. Usury, or that which is Between it  458
53. Lying in General & of an Officious [White] Lie in Specific  466
54. The Perfection of Righteousness, or the Fulfillment of the Law, & is Concupiscence a Sin?  474
55. Predestination, part 1: Of the Four Decrees of Predestination by the Arminians.  The Certainty & Immutability of Eternal Election is Asserted  481
56. Part 2, in which is Discussed Election by the Foreknowing of Faith, Against the Arminians  489
57. Part 3, The Shaking Off of Places of Scripture for Election by the Foreknowing of Faith  498
58. Part 4, The Reasons of Arminians for Election by the Foreknowing of Faith are Dissolved  509
59. Part 5, Of the Sufficiency & Irresistibility of Faith  518
60. Of Election & the Death of Christ.  Of Nature & Grace & the Perseverance of the Saints Contra the Five Articles of the Remonstrants  528
61. Of the Two-fold Testament, or of the Legal & Evangelical Covenant, part 1: Of the Same Terminology in the Old & New Testament, of the Opposition of the Law & Gospel, the Spirit of Servitude, the Ceremonial Law, the Office of John the Baptist, of Public Proclamation & Baptism  536
62. Part 2, Of the Old Testament Fathers Having Been Saved by the Faith of the Gospel, & of the Moral & Ceremonial Law, & of the Abrogation of the Ceremonies  543
63. Part 3, Of the Differences of Law & Gospel, & is Faith & Repentance Imposed by the Moral Law?  551
64. Part 4, The False Differences which are Assigned by the Pontiffs are Refelled, & the Dignity & Efficacy of the Old Testament Sacraments are Asserted  558
65. Part 5, the Calumnies of the Adversaries are Dissolved & in which Sense Paul Says, ‘We are not Under the Law’ [Rom. 6:15]  568
66. The Descent of Christ to ‘Inferos’  580
67. Of the Limbo of the Fathers, or of the State of the Souls Under the Old Testament  586
68. Of Human Satisfactions & of Purgatory  594
69. Of Satisfactions, part 1  599
70. Part 2, Of Satisfactions & of the Distinction Between Guilt & Punishment  610
71. Justification & of Justifying Faith, part 1  622
72. Part 2, Of Faith & of Various Kinds of Faith & also of the Essence & Peculiar Properties of True Faith  629
73. Part 3, Of Justifying Faith, Works & the Merit of Them  636
74. Of Good Works, part 1: Of the Cause, Circumstances, Requisites & Good Intention of Them  642
75. Part 2  650
76. Of the Merits of Works, part 1  657
77. Part 2  664
78. Of the Sacrament of Penitence, part 1  671
79. Part 2: Of Contrition & Attrition  682
80. Part 3, Of Confession  687
81. Part 4, Of Sacramental Absolution  698
82. Part 5, in which is Weighed out the Arguments & Flights of the Adversaries  708
83. The Certainty of Perseverance, part 1  717
84. Part 2, The Arguments of the Papists & Arminians Against the Certainty of Perseverance are Refuted  725
85. Of the Greatest Good [Summo Bono] & Blessedness  735
86. Of the Sacraments in General, part 1  746
87. Part 2  752
88. Of Baptism & its Necessity, part 1  758
89. Of the Names, Matter, Form, Kinds & Ministry of Baptism  769
90. Part 3, Of the Profit & Efficacy of Baptism  778
91. Of the Sacrifices in General, their Names, Kinds, Author, Causes, Necessity, Efficacy & Abrogation  790
92. Part 2, Of the Priesthood of the Mass & the Sacrifice of the Mass  801
93. Part 3, Of the Essence, Form, Efficacy & Profit of the Sacrifice of the Mass  812
94. Of the Mass & Transubstantiation, part 1: or Antitheses Between the Mass & the Lord’s Supper  822
95. Part 2, Transubstantiation Teaches the Roman Church to Destroy the Human Nature of Christ & it Implies Innumerable Contradictions  831
96. Part 3, Of the Real Presence of the Body of Christ  836
97. Part 4, Of the Sacrament of the Eucharist & its Consecration, Adoration & of the Intention of the Priest  844
98. Part 5, Of the Chewing of the Body of Christ  852
99. Of the Church  859
100. Of the Nature of the Church  869
101. Of the Dignity of the Visible Church  873
102. Of the Notes of the True Church, part 1: Of the Notes in General, also of its Catholicity & Antiquity  876
103. Part 2, Of the Perpetual Duration & Extent [Amplitudine] of the Church & Succession of Chairs  880
104. Part 3, Of Agreement with the Fathers in Doctrine & of the Union of the Church  885
105. Part 4, Of the Sanctity of Doctrine & of Miracles  889
106. Part 5, Of the One True Note of the True Church, which is the Profession of the True Faith or Doctrine  893
107. Of the Visible Head of the Universal Church & of Succession in this Office  898
108. Of Councils, part 1  904
109. Part 2  908
110. A Tract on the Knowledge of God  913
111. Of Leisure & Labor, a Theological Lecture  940

Jacob Cappel

112. Of the Covenant of God with Man  949
113. Of Predestination, part 1  953
114. Part 2, Election is not by the Foreknowing of Faith  958
115. Part 3, Of the Efficacy of the Death of Christ  962
116. Of the Controversies which vex Federated Belgium  966
117. Is it Desirable to Tolerate the Doctrine of Arminius, which Damns?  975
118. Of Free-Will  987
119. Of the Efficacy of Sanctification  992
120. Of the Constancy of Sanctification, or of the Perseverance of the Saints  998
121. Exegetical Theses in, or an Explication of, Ps. 110  1005
122. Notes In the Apocalypse of John  1009
123. A Defense of the Discipline of the Churches of the Reformation  1017
124. Of Councils, part 1  1033
125. Part 2, Containing an Index of Principal Falsehoods of Robert Bellarmine in [his] first book, On Councils  1037
126. Part 3, Containing an Index of Principal Falsehoods of Robert Bellarmine in [his] second book, On Councils  1040
127. Themes of Illustrious [Historical] Epochs, with the Explication of Some Select Difficult Places of Scripture  1046

Table of Contents, vol. 2

Abraham Ramburtio

1. Of Christ the Redeemer  1
2. Of Holy Theology  12
3. Of the Authority of Sacred Scripture  17
4. Of the Authentic Canon of Sacred Scripture  23
5. Of the Perfection of Scripture  30
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Cappel, Louis; Moyse Amyraut & Josue La Place – An Arrangement of the Theological Theses Disputed at various times in the Academy of Salmur, vol. 1 (Parts 1, 2, 4), 2 (Part 3)  (2nd ed. Saumur, 1664-5)

Cappel (1570-1624); Amyraut (1596–1664); La Place (c. 1596–1655 or 1665).

Gautier, Thomas – Principles of Didactic Theology Briefly, Clearly and Entirely Given, with a Decision on the Principle Controversies out of the Sacred Scripture  (Marburg, 1696)  343 pp., 20 chs. There is a scope of the work after the preface and a subject index at the end.

Gautier (1638-1709)

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Dutch Reformed

Danaeus, Lambert

A Christian Introduction to Christian Theological Common Places (Geneva, 1588)  with a preface by Theodore Beza

Danaeus (c. 1535 – c. 1590) 

A Compendium of Sacred Theology, or A Theological Manual in which the Whole Sum of True Christian Theology is Briefly Comprehended  (Montpellier, 1595)

A Maual of Aurelius Augustine to the Romans [Laurentium], or a Sum and the Particular heads of the Whole Christian Religion  (Geneva, 1575)

Lubbert, Sibrand  

Of the Principles of Christian Dogmas  (Franeker, 1591)

Lubbert (c.1555–1625).  He also has a number of important works on specific theological topics at PRDL.

Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism  (Franicae, 1618)

The Distinctions and Rules of Theology and Philosophy  (1652)

Trelcatius, Sr., Lucas – A Compendium of Theological Common Places in All the Small Theological Works  (Leiden, 1614)

Trelcatius (1542-1602)

Trelcatius, Jr., Lucas – A Scholastic and Methodical Arrangement of Theological Common Places in All the Smaller Works  (Leiden, 1614)

Gomarus, Arminius, Trelcatius, Jr. – A System of Theological Disputations, in the Academy at Lugduni-Batava  (Rotterdam, 1615)  Table of contents

Polyander, Thysius, Rivet, Walaeus – Synopsis of Pure Theology  (1625; ed. H. Bavinck, Leiden, 1881)  In English: Buy

This standard and very influential Dutch textbook of systematic theology was compiled from the lectures of the four professors and their students.  The ebook is much cheaper than the print edition.

For an introduction, and an English translation of the preface by Herman Bavinck to the 1800’s edition, see Henk van den Belt & Mathilde de Vries-van Uden, ‘Herman Bavinck’s Preface to the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae’  in Bavinck Review 8 (2017): 101–114.

Polyander, Johannes – Miscellaneous Theological Tracts  (1629)

Polyander (1568-1646)

Trigland, Jacob, Sr – The Threefold Grace of God, even of Election, Sanctification and Preservation, Explicated, Confirmed and Vindicated;  and the arguments, exceptions and cavillations of the Remonstrants’ Synods opposed (Amsterdam, 1636; 1637)

Trigland (1583-1654)

Walaeus, Antonius – All the Works  (Includes vols. 1 & 2, Leiden, 1643)  Included are his Common Places.

Walaeus (1573-1639)

Table of Contents

Volume 1
.       A Manual of the Reformed Religion   1-113
.       Common Places   114-558

Volume 2
.       A Tract of the Ministry of the Church, and an Inspection of the
.               Magistrate around [circa] it   1
.       A Response to the Ravenous Censure in An Anatomy of
.               Arminianism by Peter Molina   79
.       A Compendium of Aristotle’s Ethics, Called Back to the Rule
.               of Christian Truth   261
.       Miscellanea: Orations (299), Disputations (319), Conciliations &
.               Letters (372), and Poems (499)   

Schotanus, Meinardus – A System of Christian Doctrine in Sermons, in which is set forth the Practice of Faith and True Religion  (Franeker, 1640)

Schotanus was a professor of theology at Franeker (1626-1637) and Utrecht (1637-†1644).

Gomarus, Franciscus – All the Theological Works, vol. 1, 2  (Amsterdam, 1644)  See especially Part 3, ‘Theological Disputations’ in vol. 2, which goes through systematic theology.

Gomarus (1563-1641)

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Table of Contents, vol. 2

1. Disputation on the Time of the Nativity of Christ  1
2. Of the Same, Part 2  13
3. On Gen. 49:10, on the Coming of the Messiah  51
4. Of Judaism  77
5. Of the Same, Part 2  93
6. Of the General Conversion of the Jews, on Rom. 11:25-27  124
7. Of the Same, Appendix  143
8. What Kind of Faith did Christ Have & of What Manner was it with regards to the Sacraments?  155
9. Of the Agony & Desertion of Christ, Lk. 22:41-45; Mt. 27:46  164
10. Of the Same, Appendix on Sweating Blood  172
11. Of the Same, a Short Appendix on the Descent to Inferos [Grave, Nether World, Hell]  188
12. Of the Piercing of the Side of Christ, Jn. 19:34-37  195
13. Of the Same, an Addition on the Piercing of the Side of Christ  218
14. Problems about the Merit of Christ  228
15. Of the Same, Part 2  238
16. Of the Same, Part 3  255
17. Of the Same, Part 4  268
18. Of the Same, Part 5  277
19. Of Indulgences  286
20. Of the Same, Part 2  291
21. Of the Person of Christ the Mediator  304
22. Of the Same, Part 2  313
23. Of the Same, Part 3  324
24. Of the Same, an Appendix of Some Questions  341
25. An Explanation of Declarations[?] & Restrictive Formulas in Theology  362
26. Of the Same, Part 2  383
27. Of the State of the Elect Before Conversion  402
28. Of the Same, an Appendix of Questions on the Deaf & Lunatics[?]  424
29. Of Regeneration  432
30. Of the Same, Part 2  447
31. Of the Same, an Appendix on [secundo?] the Moment of Conversion  465
32. Of Simplicity & Hypocrisy  468
33. Of the Practice of Faith  496
34. Of Fundamental Articles & Errors  511
35. On Prejudices of the True Religion  539
36. Of the Planters of Churches  552
37. Of the Same, an Appendix on the Builders of Church Buildings, the Erectors of Colleges[?] & the Founders of Redituum[?]  573
38. Of Gentilism & the Calling of the Gentiles  579
39. Of the Same, Part 2  601
40. Of the Same, Part 3  621
41. Of Islam  659
42. An Inventory of the Roman Church, or the Papacy  684
43. The Discerning Note of the Papacy  687
44. Of the Evolution[?] [Translatione] of the Papacy from Peter to the Pope  698
45. An Orderly Presentation [Method] Warding Off the Presumption, Succession, Antiquity & Catholicity of the Papacy  724
46. Of the Same, a Short Appendix, a an Orderly Presentation Demonstrating the Novelty of the Papacy  724
[?] 47. The Papacy itself Throws out the Force of Truth for the Assertion of the Fundamentals of Christianity, and of Salvation Through the Mercy of God Alone in Christ  726
48. Of the Same, Part 2  742
49. Of the Same, Part 3  756
50. A Query on the Faith of Papists: Is it Saving or Damning?  776
51. An Inventory of Controversies, of the Temporal Power of the Pope  791
52. Of the Same, Part 2  807
53. Question: Is the Roman Throne Compatible with Reformed Governments?  827
54. Of the Same, an Appendix of Some Problems  856
55. Of the Donation of Constantine  868
56. A Historical-Theological Query on the Official [Imperii] Translation from Greek into French  882
57. Of Signs, First, of Miracles, Wonders & Portents[?] of Nature  902
58. Of the Same, Part 2  922
59. Of the Same, an Appendix on the Panic of Terror  936
60. Of the Same, Second, which is of Signs of the Times and Forebodings of Death  943
61. Of the Same, Third, which is of Miracles, First  964
62. Of the Same, Second  979
63. Of the Same, Appendix on the Faith of Miracles  984
64. Of the Same, Third  993
65. Of the Same, Fourth  1012
66. Of the Same, an Appendix on the Girl Aurelianensi[?]  1031
67. Of the Same, Fourth, which is of Prophecy  1036
68. Of the Same, an Index of Materials and a Catalogue of Some Prophecies and Prophets  1055
69. Of the Same, Fifth, which is of Spiritual Gifts [Charismatis]  1086
70. Of the Same, Sixth, which is on the Testing of Spirits  1100
71. Of the Same, Part 2  1133
72. ‘A Narration of the Wonderful Acts of the Spirit ad Posonium Gestae‘ [a RC book from 1643, on WorldCat & GB]  1141
73. An Exercitation[?] on Thomas, Part 1, Question 12, Article 1, ‘Of the Vision of God, According to the Essence’  1193
74. Of the Same, Part 2  1203
75. Exercitation on Thomas, Part 1, Part 2 [?], Question 3, Article 4, ‘Of the Subject of Blessedness and of [its?] the Formal Act’  1217
76. Of the Same, Part 2  1228
77. Of the Purgatory of the Papists  1240
78. On Rev. 20:4-6, of the Millennial Reign  1248
79. Appendix to the Disputation on the Millennial Reign  1266
80. Addenda [End-Notes on the Disputations]  1272

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Table of Contents, vol. 3

1. A Disputation on Practical Theology  1
2. Of the Same, Part 2  11
3. Of the Same, Part 3  21
4. Of the Same, Part 4  31
5. Of the Same, Part 5  42
6. Of the Same, Part 6  51
[?] 7. Of Precision in the Illustration of the Catechism Questions #94, 113, 115  59
8. Of the Love of God  79
9. Of Superstition  91
10. Some Addenda [to Superstition]  126
11. Historical Appendix – Of the Theology of Sneezing [sometimes it was considered to be an omen]  132
12. Added Unto the Disputation on Superstition, where is Treated of Genuflection at the Name of Jesus and unto the Table, or Altar  139
13. Part 2  163
14. Part 3  179
15. Part 4  201
16. Part 5  214
17. Of the Kabbalah  226
18. Of Indirect Idolatry and of Participating in Idolatry  234
19. Of the Same, Part 2  245
20. A Short Appendix on Prayer to the East  269
21. Of the Same, Part 3  278
22. Appendix  317
23. A Question Proposed from the Classis [Presbytery] of Gorinchem to the Theological Faculty of Utrecht [with an answer, regarding whether reformed persons may be joined with Papists under certain conditions] 358
24. Notes & Observations of Albaspinus on Canons 2-4, 40, 55, 56, 59 of the Council of Eliberin [on Indirect Idolatry]  368
25. Of the Canonization of Saints  386
26. Of the Same, Part 2, 393
27. Of the Same, Part 3, 400
[?] 28. Of the Patronhood, Keeping & Overseeing of the Saints  415
29. Of the Same, Part 2  426
30. Of the Same, Part 3  436
31. Of the Same, Part 3, Section 2  456
32. Of the Deities[?] or Some Chimerical Saints, the First, which is of Ursula [d. 383], etc.  472
33. Of the Same, Part 2 of the First  482
34. Of the Same, Part 3 of the First  492
35. An Index of the Chimerical Saints  503
36. Of the Same, Part 3  509
37. Appendix to the Disputations on Superstition and Idolatry  532
38. Of Magic  539
39. Of the Same, Part 2  562
40. First Appendix  612
41. Second Appendix  623
42. Of Ignorance  632
43. Of the Same, Part 2  642
44. Of the Same, Part 3  652
45. Of Being [?] Taught Ignorance  668
46. Of the Same, Part 2  681
47. Of Error and Heresy  692
48. Of the Same, Part 2  703
49. Of the Same, Part 3  713
50. Of the Same, Part 4  722
51. Of the Same, Part 5  736
52. Of the Same, Part 6  750
53. Of the Same, Part 7  768
54. Of the Same, Part 8  791
[?] 55. Of the Latent Mark & Heresies of the Anti-Trinitarian Serpent
56. Of Faith, Conscience & Dubious Theology  825
57. Of the Same, Part 2  834
58. Appendix on Philosophical Doubt  847
59. The Status of the Inficialis [Staining?] Question of the Worship of Images in the Papacy  870
60. Of Cross-Worship, or the Worship and Abuse of the Cross  884
61. Of the Same, Part 2  893
62. Of the Same, Part 3  900
63. An Addition to the Disputations on Cross-Worship and Indirect Idolatry  931
64. Of the Lamb of God  934
65. Of the Pseudo-Mortifications of the Papacy  946
66. Of Processions  960
67. Of Pilgrimages Compostellanis [?]  987
68. First Short Appendix on Pilgrimages to Jerusalem  999
69. Second Short Appendix on Relics  1002
70. Third Short Appendix on Pilgrimages to the Blood of Boxtelensa [?]  1003
71. Of Pseudo-Prayers, Rosaries, Litanies, Canonical Hours & the Offices of the Roman Church  1013
72. Of Little-Bead[?] Prayers  1023
73. Of Pseudo-Prayers, etc., Part 2  1037
74. Of Litanies  1049
75.   Of Pseudo-Prayers, etc., Part 3  1056
76. Appendix on the Office, or the Canonical Hours of Blessed Mary  1068
77. Of Benedictions, Consecrations & Sacraments  1076
78. Appendix of Some Problems [8 Problems & Answers]  1090
79. Of a Religious Vow  1100
80. Of the Same, Part 2  1113
81. Of the Same, Part 3  1123
82. Of Exorcism  1135
83. Of the Same, Part 2  1150
84. Appendix on the Exorcism of Baptized Infants  1173
85. Second Appendix  1188
86. Of Divination and Other Abuses of the Divine Name  1194
87. Of Citation to the Judgment of God  1201
88. Of Idle Words and Deeds  1215
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92. A Short Appendix on the Cup of Salvation and Every Good  1219
93. Of the Sabbath Day and Festival Days  1227
94. Of the Same, Part 2  1252
95. Appendix on the Gentile’s First Day of January, Birthdays and Civil Festivals  1281
96. Appendix of Festivals and the Extra Quasi-Festivals the Papacy Observes  1314
97. A Short Appendix on Ecclesiastical Computation and the Correction of the Gregorian Calendar  1346
98. On the [Roman Catholic] Jubilee [involving a release from Purgatory, etc.] 1354
99. A Short Appendix on the Jesuit Jubilee  1381
100. Of the Fortieths [?] & of the Bacchanalia Festivals  1383
101. Addenda [End-notes to the Disputations]

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Table of Contents, vol. 4

1. Disputation on Arguments of Theology from an Absurd Consequence  1
2. Of the Law and Gospel, Part 1  17
3. Of the Same, Part 2  30
4. Of the Same, Part 3  47
5. Of the Court of the Municipality and of Oneself, Part 1  62
6. Of the Same, Part 2  75
7. Of the Judgments of God, Part 1  91
8. Of the Same, Part 2  102
9. Of the Love of [Your] Neighbor  113
10. Of a Good Example and its Imitation and Opposite, Scandal, Part 1  124
11. Of the Same, Part 2  132
12. Of the Same, Part 3  141
13. Of the Same, Part 4  147
14. Of the Offices of Love [Charitatis] Towards a Near Sinner [proximum peccantem, a sinful neighbor?], Part 1  157
15. Of the Same, Part 2  167
16. Of the Blind Obedience of the Papists, Part 1  182
17. Of the Same, Part 2  194
18. Of the Political Magistrate  206
19. Of the Kingly Right of the Hebrews  211
20. A Disquisition on the Author of ‘Defences [of Liberty] Against Tyrants’ [Stephen Junius Brutus, Basel, 1579]   231
21. Of the Murder and Hurting of Oneself, even of Voluntary Flagellation  244
Appendix 1, on Problems  270
[?] Appendix 2, of the Burning of a Particular Ship  281
22. Of the Plague, or on the Spiritual Antidote of a Plague  292
23. Of the Vanities [Excelsis] of the World, on the Seventh Commandment of the Decalogue, the First, which is of Dances  325
24. Of the Same, Second Disputation, of Comedies  356
25. Of the Same, the Other Part  367
26. Of the Same, Third Disputation, which is of Abuses in Food & Feasts  385
27. Of the Same, Fourth Disputation, which is of Luxury and Vanity in Clothes, Houses and Goods[?]  403
28. Of the Same, Part 2  417
29. Of the Same, Fifth Disputation, which is of the Decoration of the Face and Hair  429
30. Of the Same, Part 2  444
31. Of the Same, Part 3  453
32. Of Intoxication  493
33. Of Simony, Part 1  515
34. Of the Same, Part 2  523
35. Of the Same, Part 3  533
36. Of the Same, Part 4  540
37. Of Usury, Part 1  555
38. Of the Same, Part 2  557
Of Money-Lenders  575
[?]39. Of a Lender of False-Money  590
40. Of Restitution  608
Appendix of Some Special Questions
41. Some Problems about the Ninth Commandment of the Decalogue, of Lying, a False Appearance and of Disguising, Part 1  631
42. Of the Same, Part 2, of Deceit, Equivocation & Mental Reservation  640
43. Of the Same, Part 3, of Falsehood  661
44. Of the Same, Part 3, of Falsehood, Part 2  681
An Appendix of Some Questions  695
45. Of Calumny, Detraction and Clamor [Abuse?], Part 1  702
46. Of the Same, Part 2  715
47. Disquisition on Thomas, Part 2, Part 1, Questions 68-70, of Blessed Gifts and the Fruits of the Spirit  729
48. An Explanation of Eccl. 9:11  739
49. A Disputation Containing Some Miscellaneous Positions  745
50. A Syllabus of Questions on the Whole Decalogue  763
51. Addenda  825

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Table of Contents, vol. 5

1-5  Problems of Scripture  1
1-9  Of God  48
1-10  Of the Divine Persons  136
1-3  Of Angels  241
.        3.  Is Christ’s Saving the Elect by the Special Grace of Regeneration
and Faith Meritorious?  270
1-6  Of Justification  277
1-5  On Psalm 103:3
1  Of the Church  383
1-2  Of the Communion of the Saints  387
1  Of the Spiritual Man, on 1 Cor. 2:15  408
1  Of Judgment and the Rule of Faith  419
1  Of the Roman Proteus [the god of ‘elusive sea change’, according to the constantly changing nature of the sea; Proteus comes the adjective protean, with the general meaning of “versatile”, “mutable”, “capable of assuming many forms”], or a Setting Forth [Defensio] of the Reasons [Causae] that Rome is Always Changing [Mutata Mutanda]   435
1  A Gleaning unto a Historical Discussion of the Popess Joan [Ioannes Anglicus, A.D. 855-857]  444
1-6  Of the Modes of Knowing God  455
1  Of the Sacrifice[?] of Melchizedek in Gen. Gen. 14:18  526
1  Of the State of Souls After Death  533
1  Of the Soul of Trajan Liberated from Hell [Inferno]  538
1-12  Of the Gestures of Praying  550
1-5  Of Subsequent Grace  716

[The below is written in the table of contents, but this appendix is not included in the volume on GB]

Johannem Beverovicium, An Epistolic Dissertation on the End of Life  1

Andrea Libavi, A Declamation on the Comets of 1604  137

Gisbert Voetius, From an Exercitation on the Signs of Comets  141

Prolegomena on Dr. Libavi’s, Declamation on the Comets of the Year 1604, Seen in October  141

1. That it is Right, according to Libavi, for You to Draw out of the Stars, yea, even the Comets, Special Divinations, is Exploded  151

[?] 2. Are Any and All Signs of Comets, being Seen, to be Discarded?  154

[?] 3. Preliminary Considerations and the Rightly Ordered State of the Controversy:  Thus far is the Consensus of All the Peoples and Wisdom Displayed, Even out of Foolishness and Superstition to be Looking for Some Foreboding in the Appearance of Comets.  165

4. What of Fear from the Apparition and Sighting of Comets?  Is it the Beginning of the Judgment?  190

5. The Universal Consensus of the Peoples and Wisdom is Confirmed by the Judgments[?] on the Signs of Comets  201

6. Objections are Responded to  227

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Spanheim (1600-1649)

Vol. 1, Table of Contents

1. Of Sacred Theology  1
2. The Compendium of Theology Exhibited  5
3. Of Theological Miscellany  9
4. Of Sacred Scripture  12
5. Of the Written Word of God in its species and origin  21  (Francis Turretin)
6. Of the Authority of the Written Word of God  26
7. Of the End of Sacred Scripture, the first part  31
8. Of the End of Sacred Scripture, the second part  35
9. Of God, the first part  38
10. Of God, the second part  42
11. Of the Sacred Trinity  45
12. Of the Attributes of God in General  53
13. Of the Incommunicable Attributes of God in Specific  57  (Jacob Trigland)
14. Of the Decrees of God in General  61
15. Exhibiting an Epitome of Socinian Theology  66
16. Of the Providence of God  72
17. Of the Actual Providence of God  82
18. Of the Works of Creation  87
19. Of the Angels  91
20. Of the Creation of Man and the Image of God  100
21. Of the State of Man, first in Integrity, then in Corruption  105  (Francis Burman)
22. Of Sin in General  117
23. Of the Fall of Adam  126
24. Of Sin, of the Origin, the first part  136
25. Of Sin, of the Origin, the second part  148
26. Of Sin, of the Origin, the third part  157
27. Of Sin, of the Origin, fourth part  161
28. Of Original Sin  169
29. Of Actual Sin  174
30. Of Predestination  178
31. Of Predestination  195
32. Of Predestination, the Extent & Efficacy of the Death of Christ, of the Cause of our Conversion to God and its mode, and of the Perseverance of the Saints  208
33. Of Universal Grace  330
34. Of Free Choice  237
35. Of the Perseverance of the Saints  240
36. Of the Perseverance of the Saints  253
37. Of the Person of Christ, the first part  259
38. Of the Person of Christ, the second part  263
39. Of the Office of Christ & its twofold State  268
40. Of the State of the Humiliation of Christ  272
41. Of the Justification of a Sinner before God  277
42. Of Justification  282
43. Of Religion  286
44. Of Christian Liberty  290
45. Of the Calling and Functions of Ministers  297
46. Of Schismatic Names, the first part  300
47. Of Schismatic Names, the second part  309
48. Of Schismatic Names, the third part  316
49. Of the False Church  325
50. Of the Antichrist, the first part  330
51. Of the Antichrist, the second part  335
52. Of Antichrist, the third part  341
53. Of Miscellaneous Questions and Theorems  346
54. Of Baptism  349
55. Of Baptism  354
56. Of the Sacred Supper  359
57. Of Glorification, the Resurrection & the Judgment  364
58. Of the Consummation of the World & the Last Judgment  368

Maetz, Carolus – A Forest of Eminent Questions: Philological, About Antiquity, Philosophical, a True and Most Able View of Theology  (Utrecht, 1650)  Table of contents

Maetz (1597-1651) was of Flemish lineage and a professor of theology at Utrecht.  This is not a systematic theology, but it treats of quite a number of systematic topics.

Table of Contents

Of the good and bad of human actions
Of the Law of Nature
Of the Origin of the Signification of Words
Of the fixing of water which now obtains
Of the providence of God
Of that which is above nature
Of the diversity of the precepts of the Law of Nature
Of the law binding marriage, that one eat and that one drink in the state of innocency
Of the law of covering nudity after sin, of the use of clothing and of the giving of alms
Of the things of Paradise
Of the invention of iron implements
Of natural and political honesty
Of the reason of the whole of physics, and a part
Of the Law of Nations
Of custom [consuetudine]
Of the ways which Nature teaches
Of objective and subjective conviction
Of philosophy
Of natural inclination
Of honesty, being considered in common
Of prudence about the household [oeconomica] and politics
Of convenience and inconvenience
Of the use of headcoverings amongst the Corinthians, and the practice of prostitutes and young men and women among them  (pp. 246-253)
Of headcoverings and calotis [beautiful ears?] of ministers
Of things necessary and indifferent
Whether divine councils oblige?
Of the [Greek] term, ‘of knowing’ and 1 Cor. 7
Of the ecclesiastical constitutions of the apostles, viz. whether they are human?
Of the varied rule [ratione] of indifferent things
Of the circumstances of human actions
Of contempt
On the walking of a woman on the right side of the man
Of the natural signs of dignity, arbitrary things, and by accident
Of the variety of ecclesiastical constitutions
Of scandal
Whether, and in what way, it is said that one is able to break the law in necessity?
Of ceremonies
Of the office of judges
Of invincible ignorance
Of the possession of things
Of prayer for ignorant persons
Of that which is not out of faith
Of the legal sacrifices
Of the study of new things in the care of the body
Of the law of modest humility and of the nearest edification, whether either is from the Law of Nature?
Of the double subjection of a woman
And of many others

Cocceius, Johannes

A Sum of Theology Rehearsed out of the Scriptures  (Geneva, 1665)

Cocceius  (1603-69)

Table of Contents

1. Of Theology & the Method of Laying it out  1
2. Of the Necessity of Sacred Scripture  16
3. Of the Authority of Scripture  23
4. Of the Books of the Canon  38
5. Of the Perfection or Sufficiency of Scripture  51
6. Of the Perspicuity & Interpretation of Scripture  71
7. Of that which is Fundamental  90
8. Of the Recognized Arguments from Nature by which it is demonstrated that God Exists  97
9. Of the Names of God  125
10. Of the Communicable Attributes of God  142
11. Of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit  155
12. Of the Procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father & Son  178
13. Of the Divine Names, Attributes and Works according to the Distinct, Holy Persons  186
14. Of the Counsel of God in General  198
15. Of Creation in General  209
16. Of Good & Bad Angels  221
17. Of Man being Made in the Image of God  234
18. Of the Immortality of the First Man  246
19. Of Marriage  256
20. Of the Dominion which was Attributed to the First Man  257
21. Of the First Sabbath  261
22. Of the Covenant of Works & the Righteousness of the Law
23. Of the Sacrament of Life  278
24. Of the Nature of Sin  282
25. Of the Liberty & Mutability of the Rational Creature
26. Of the Examination of Man  300
27. Of the Transgression of man, as well as the Fall of Angels & the Conservation of the Hoy Angels  303
28. Of the Providence of God, even about Evil  311
29. Of the Corruption of Man by Sin  320
30. Of the Propagation of Sin  333
31. Of the First Evacuation of the Covenant of Works & the Powerlessness of the Law  350
32. Of the Freedom of Choice of a Sinner  360
33. Of the Counsel of the Exercise of Grace, where is [treated] of the Testament
34. Of the Mediator and Surety of the Testament  387
35. Of the Accomplishing [Effectu] of the Surety  392
36. The Counsel of the Twofold Economy  393
37. Confirmation of the Doctrine of the Counsel of Grace, in Opposition to Wrath by the Illustrious Sayings of Scripture, in which is the mentioning of Predestination and Election  395
38. Of the Counsel of the Exercise of Wrath  404
39. Of the Order of the Decrees and the Object of Predestination  410
40. Of Permission  412
41. Of the Covenant of Grace  423
42. Of the Calling of Man to Salvation  429
43. Of Ancient Tradition  438
44. Of Regeneration  445
45. Of Repentance  452
46. Of Faith  456
47. Of the Faith of the Fathers  480
48. Of the Righteousness of Faith  484
49. Of the Perseverance of the Saints  505
50. Of the Certainty of Salvation  516
51. Of the Righteousness of the Fathers Before the Law  525
52. Of the Sacraments of the Covenant of Grace  530
53. Of the Sacraments which were before the Law  537
54. Of the Old Testament
55. Of the Sacraments of the Old Testament which were added to Circumcision  576
56. Of the Promise of the New Testament  587
57. Of the Preceding Preparation of the New Testament, or the Approaching of the Old to Abolition  598
58. Of the Incarnation of Christ  604
59. Of the Anointing and Threefold Office of Christ
60. Of the Humiliation and Sufferings of Christ  627
61. Of the Satisfaction of Christ  641
62. Of the Exaltation of Christ  659
63. Of the Gospel  669
64. Of the Sacraments added to the Gospel, in specific of Baptism  684
65. Of the Holy Supper  696
66. Of the Mass  704
67. Of the Super-Enumerated Sacraments [of Rome & others]  718
68. Of the Faith of the New Testament  723
69. Of the Justification of the Gospel by Faith  732
70. Of the Merits of Works  745
71. Of the Calling of the Gentiles  751
72. Of the Judgments of the Infidels  758
73. Of the Judgments of the Infidels out of the Gentiles  766
74. Of the Distinction of the Old & New Testament, & Christian Liberty  769
75. Of the Head of the Church  788
76. Of Ecclesiastical Laws and Judgments  794
77. Of the Calling & Function of the Ministers of the Church: as single persons, and then congregated in Synods; and of the Rule of Celibacy  805
78. Of the Relation o the Church to the Worldly Kingdom  821
79. Of Wrestling  (Of the State of the Church in this World)  833
80. Of Persecution & Afflictions  836
81. Of Corruption being introduced in Doctrine & Government  841
82. Of the Mixing of the Beast with the Church  847
83. Of the Conservation of the Church in the Kingdom of the Beast  856
84. Of the Antichrist  846
85. Of the Liberation of the Church from Antichrist  873
86. Of the Kingdom of the Church  882
87. Of the End of the World  886
88. Of the Necessity & Consequence of Good Works from Faith  889
89. A Brief Rehearsing of the Decalogue  905
90. Of Prayer  936
91. Of Councils  946
92. Of the Precepts which are said to be superadded to the Decalogue  955
93. Of the Magistrate  961
94. Of the Death of the Pious  967
95. Of the State of the Discharged Faithful  971
96. Of the Resurrection of the Dead & of the Judgment  981
97. Of Life Eternal  987

A Sum of the Doctrine of the Covenant and Testament of God  (Leiden, 1654; Amsterdam, 1691)

Hoornbeek, Johannes

A Tract on the Rule of Preaching  appended to Andrew Essenius, A Compendium of Dogmatic Theology  (Utrecht, 1685)

Hoornbeek (1617-1666)

Theological Institutes, brought forth out of the Best Authors  (Leiden, 1658)

Table of Contents

1. Of Theology
2. Of Sacred Scripture
3. Of God
4. Of the Decree of God & Predestination
5. Of Creation
6. Of the Providence of God
7. Of the Law & of Sin
8. Of Christ & of Redemption
9. Of Faith & of Justification
10. Of Sanctification & of Observing
11. Of the Church
12. Of the Sacraments, or Sacred Symbols
13. Of the Last Things

A Sum of Controversies in Religion with Infidels, Heretics and Schismatics  (Utrecht, 1653; 1676)

Table of Contents

Dissertation on Controversies & Theological Disputations  1

1. Of Gentilism  56
2. Of Judaism  62
3. Of Mohammedism  70
4. Of Papalism  192
5. Of Anabaptism  330
6. Of Enthusiasts & Libertines, etc.  378
7. Of Socinianism  562
8. Of Remonstrants [Arminians]  575
9. Of Lutherans  608
10. Of Brownists, etc.  738
11. Of Greeks & Orientals  833

Addenda: The Judgment of the Theological Faculty in the Academy Leiden on the Sects of the Brothers of the Rose-Cross  993

Practical Theology, vol. 1, 2  (Utrecht, 1663; 1689)

Vol. 1, Table of Contents

Prolegomena  1

Book 1

1. Of Exertion for Eternal Salvation  1
2. Of the Practice of Religion  31
3. Of the Study of the Divine Word  45

Book 2

1. Of God  85
2. Of the Predestination of God  141
3. Of Creation  165
4. Of the Providence of God  177

Book 3

1. Of the Law of God  201
2. Of Conscience  285

Book 4

1. Of Sin  305
2. Temptation to Sin  331
3. Of the Devil  339
4. Of the Flesh  365
5. Of the Word  371
6. Of the Rising of Sin  381
7. Of the Sin against the Holy Spirit  393
8. Of the Punishment of Sin  412
9. Of the State of Sin  425
10. Of the Misery of Man  439
11. Of the Knowledge of Oneself  448
12. Of the Despair of Oneself  454

Book 5

1. Of Grace  461
2. Of the Divine Promisses  468
3. Of the Gospel  478
4. Of Christ  483
5. Of the Nativity of Christ  487
6. Of the Suffering of Christ  492
7. Of the Resurrection of Christ  500
8. Of the Ascension of Christ  508
9. Of the Heavenly Glory of Christ  514
10. Of the Office of Christ  520
11. Of Redemption  542

Book 6

1. Of the Calling of a Sinful Man to Christ  554
2. Of the Anointing of the Holy Spirit  572
3. Of Illumination  588
4. Of Conversion  600
5. Of Repentance  623
6. Of the Shame of Sin  638
7. Of the Confession of Sinners  640
8. Of Tears  653
9. Of Spiritual Poverty  665
10. Of Humiliation  672
11. Of Repentance  677
12. Of the Spiritual Mortification & Vivification of a Man  685
13. Of the Denial of Self  697

Book 7

1. Of Coming to Christ  713
2. Of Faith  748
3. Of our Union with Christ  793
4. Of the Remission of Sins  810
5. Of Adoption  826
6. Of Hope  832
7. Of Trust in God  848
8. Of the Love of God  858
9. Of the Love of One’s Neighbor  875

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Vol. 2, Table of Contents

Book 8

1. Of the State of Grace  1
2. Of the Examination of Oneself  24
3. Of Sincerity & Hypocrisy  38
4. Of Discerning Grace  55
5. Of the Certainty of Salvation  64
6. Of Spiritual Joy  79
7. Of Spiritual Combat  89
8. Of Progressing Spiritually  106
9. Of Constancy  115
10. Of Zeal  122
11. Of the Uniqueness of the Saints  134
12. Of Infirmities  148

Book 9

1. Of Obedience  171
2. Of Good Works  178
3. Of Virtue  183
4. Of Holiness  186
5. Of the Fear of God  195
6. Of Religion  203
7. Of the Worship of God  208
8. Of Piety  213
9. Of Impiety  220
10. Of Idolatry  224
11. Of Superstition  233
12. Of Magic  240
13. Of the Temptation [or Trial] of God  254
14. Of Blasphemy  260
15. Of Prayer  263
16. Of the Lord’s Prayer  312
17. Of the Confession of Faith  350
18. Of a Vow  356
19. Of an Oath  360
20. Of the Sanctification of the Lord’s Day  368
21. Of Holy Marriages [Coetibus]  389
22. Of Baptism  409
23. Of the Lord’s Supper  422
24. Of Devotion  430
25. Of Sacred Meditation  435
26. Of the Good of Solitude  442
27. Of Fasting  454
28. Of the Discipline of the Church  467
29. Of Christian Liberty  478

Book 10

1. Of Righteousness  493
2. Of Friendship  497
3. Of Peace  501
4. Of Concord  508
5. Of Gentleness  512
6. Of Humility  516
7. Of Haughtiness [Superbia]  521
8. Of Animosity [Odio]  524
9. Of Jealousy [Invidia]  526
10. Of Wrath  529
11. Of Vengeance  534
12. Of Injuries [or Injustices]  537
13. Of War  550
14. Of Cruelty  560
15. Of Persecution  562
16. Of Temperance  575
17. Of Chastity  578
18. Of Avarice  581
19. Of Contention  585
20. Of Condemnation  590
21. Of Truthfulness  593
22. Of Honor  599
23. Of Concupiscence  607

Socinianism Confuted, vol. 1, 2  (Amsterdam, 1650/62)  There is a one page syllabus of questions on p. 104 (by GB’s counting) in vol. 1, with Scripture and subject indices at the end.  There is a syllabus of questions in vol. 2 after the Prolegomena.

Hoornbeek goes through the whole system of Socinianism; hence this work is virtually a polemical systematic theology.

Velthuysen, Lambert – Theology  (Fribourg, 1666)

Velthuysen (1623-1685)

Table of Contents

1. Of Blessedness  3
2. Of the Principles of Faith  3
3. Of Principles from the First Rising, or Fundamental Articles & Errors  8
4. Of God & his Works  11
5. Of the Attributes of God  13
6. Of the Righteousness & Law of God  21
7. Of the Works of God  29
8. Of the Providence of God  35
9. Of the Image of God  45
10. Of the Fall  47
11. Of Free Choice  47
12. Of Sin  50
13. Of Original Sin: being Imputed & Inhering  53
14. Of Inhering Sin  55
15. Of the Punishments of Sinners  57
16. Of the Works of Grace  59
17. Of the Covenants & Testaments  67
18. Of the Death & Satisfaction of Christ  70
19. Of the Grace of Conversion  77
20. Of Justification  83
21. Of Faith  84
22. Of Perseverance  85
23. Of Good Works  88
24. Of Laws  89
25. Of the Church  90
26. Of the Four Last Things  91

Vogelsang, Reinerus – Exercises of Theology: of Supernatural Revelation, of the Scriptures, of the Nature of God, of the Mystery of the Trinity, of the Divine Decrees, of Predestination, of Creation, Of Providence, Of the Duties of Rational Creatures, of Good and Evil Angels, of the Sin of Adam and Original Sin, of the Strength of the Free Will of Fallen Man, etc.  (Rotterdam, 1668)

Vogelsang (1610-1679)

Table of Contents

1 – Theology   1
2 – Supernatural Revelation, especially of the Urim and Thummim   33
3 – The Definition of Sacred Scripture   48
4 – The Authority of Sacred Scripture   57
5 – The Perfection of Sacred Scripture   82
6 – The Clarity of Sacred Scripture   97
7 – The Authentic Text and Integrity of the Scriptures; where those primitive characteristics are squared with the Samaritan [version], nor are of the Samaritan Pentateuch Codex; and of the antiquity of the Hebrew Vocalization and Accent Points   109
8 – The Versions of Sacred Scripture: in particular the Septuagint Translation and the Latin Vulgate   167
9 – The Reading of Sacred Scripture   234
10 – Scripture its own interpreter, and the ‘in my judgment’ controversies.   251
11 – The Apocryphal Books   251
12 – The Nature of God   275
13 – The Mystery of the Sacrosanct Trinity   349
14 – The Decree of God   393
15 – Predestination   441
16 – The Creation of the World   483
17 – The Distribution of the Works of Creation   497
18 – The Creation of the Angels   515
19 – The Creation of Man   521
20 – The Providence of God   550
21 – The Duties of Rational Creatures   604
22 – The Good Angels   611
23 – The Bad Angels   628
24 – The Sin of Adam   699
25 – Original Sin   733

Burman, Francis – A Synopsis of Theology, and especially of the Economy of the Covenant of God, from the beginning of ages to the consummation of all things, vol. 1, 2  (Utrecht, 1671)  The table of contents is at the beginning of each volume.

Burman (1628-79)

Vol. 1, Table of Contents

Book 1

On the Introduction of Theology & its Principle,
Sacred Scripture; likewise of God & his Decrees & Works

1. Introduction: On the Economy of the Time Periods & the Division of the Work  1
2. Of Religion & Theology  3

Locus 1: Of Sacred Scripture

3. Of the Necessity of the Divine Word & Scripture  18
4. Of the Divinity of the Same  20
5. Of the Authority of Divine Scripture  28
6. Of the Canonical, Apocryphal & Supposed Books  34
7. Of the Integrity of Sacred Scripture  41
8. Of the Perfection of Sacred Scripture  45
9. Of Enthusiasts & Libertines, & Papal Traditionalists  50
10. Of the Perspicuity of Sacred Scripture  61
11. Of the Use & Reading of Sacred Scripture  67
12. Of the Interpretation of Scripture  70
13. Of the Version [Translation] of Scripture  87

Locus 2: Of God

14. Of the Existence of God  89
15. Of the Aseity, Primacy [Primitate] & Unity of God  96
16. Of the Names of God  99
17. Of the Spirituality & Indivisibility of God  104
18. Of the Infinity & Perfection of God  107
19. Of the Attributes of God in General  108
20. Of the Life of God  112
21. Of the Intellect & Knowledge [Scientia] of God  113
22. Of the Will of God  120
23. Of the Attributes of the Divine Will, which are called Affections  126

Of the Astonishment of God; of the Love & Hate of God  127
Of the Wrath of God  129
Of the Desire & Aversion of God  130
Of the Hope of God & its Opposites.  Of the Joy & Mourning of God  131
Of the Deriding & Compassion of God  132
Of the Acquiescence & Repentance of God  133
Of the Glory of God  134

24. Of the Attributes of the Divine Will which are called Virtues  134
25. Of the Omnipotence of God  143
26. Of the Omnipresence of God  148
27. Of the Eternity of God  153
28. Of the Simplicity & Immutability of God  157
29. Of the Glory & Blessedness of God  159

Locus 3: Of the Most Holy Trinity

30. Of the Most Holy Trinity & the Distinction of Persons  161
31. Of the Divine Persons in Specific  167
32. A Demonstration of the Most Holy Trinity  180
33. Of the Deity of the Son  188
34. Of the Deity of the Holy Spirit  212
35. Of the Errors of the Heretics About the Most Holy Trinity  217
36. Of the Economy of the Three Persons, & following it, the Attributes & Operations of them  227

Locus 4: Of the Divine Counsel & Predestination

37. Of the Counsel & Decree of God in General  235
38. Of Divine Predestination, & specially of Election  243
39. Of Divine Reprobation  254
40. Of Errors About Predestination  262

Locus 5: Of Creation

41. Of Creation in General  271
42. Of the Works of Creation in Specific  284

Of the Works of the First Day  288
Of the Second Day  293
Of the Third Day  297
Of the Fourth Day  298
Of the Fifth Day  303
Of the Sixth Day  304

Locus 6: Of the Providence of God

43. Of the Providence of God in General  318
44. Of the Providence of God in Specific  326

Locus 7: Of Angels

45. Of Angels in General  350
46. Of Angels in Specific  362

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Book 2

Of the Economy of the Covenant of Nature, or of Works, & of the Covenant of Grace in General

Locus 8:

Of Man Having been Made in the Image of God, & of the Covenant of God with Him

1. Of the Image of God in Man  384
2. Of the Covenant of God with the First Man  389
3. Of the Sanction of the Covenant of Nature by the Promise of Life & the Threat of Death  396
4. Of the Sacraments of the Covenant of Nature, of Paradise & of the Tree of Life  405
5. Of the Tree of Knowledge & of the Command about it  410

Locus 9

Of the Transgression of the Covenant of Nature

6. Of the Fall of Man  415
7. Of Sin  428

Locus 10

Of the Effects of the Transgression in the First Man & his Posterity

8. Of the Effects of Sin in the First Man  433
9. Of Original Sin  444
10. Of Actual Sin  455
11. Of Enslaved Choice  462
12. Of the Antiquation of the Covenant of Works  471

Locus 11

Of the Constitution of the Covenant of Grace

13. Of the Covenant and Testament of Grace  475
14. Of the Mediator of the Covenant of Grace  481
15. Of the Surety of the Covenant of Grace  488

Locus 12

Of the Execution of the Covenant of Grace

16. Of the Promulgation & Application of the Covenant of Grace  497

17. Of the Subject of the Covenant of Grace.  Where is treated of its latitude & universal grace  499

Book 3

Of the Economy of the Covenant of Grace Under the Promise

Locus 13

Of the First Promise & its Propagation even unto Moses

1. Of the First Promise & its Propagation even unto Abraham  506
2. Of the Calling of Abraham, the beginning of the Covenant of God with him & the Special Promise given to Him  512
3. Of the Propagation of the Promise from Abraham to Moses  522
4. Of the Faith of the Fathers under the Promise, the Righteousness of them and the hope of Salvation  531

Locus 14

Of the Word under the Promise

5. Of the Word of the Church under the Promise & of the Prophetic Revelations  543

Locus 15

Of the Sacraments & Worship under the Promise

6. Of the Sacraments under the Promise  554
7. Of the External Worship of the Church under the Promise  566

Locus 16

8. Of the State & Latitude of the Church under the Promise  571

Book 4

Of the Economy of the Covenant of Grace under the Law of Moses

Locus 17

Of the Old Testament & Law

1. Of the Old Testament  582
2. Of the Law of God in General & its Threefold Division  588

Locus 18, Of the Moral Law

3. Of the Moral Law in General  590
4. Of the Legislation  593
5. Of the Decalogue  596
6. Of the Ministry of the Law & its Use  601

Locus 19

7. Of the Institution, Causes & Use of the Ceremonial Law  607

Locus 20, Of Sacred Persons

8. Of the High Priest & Priests  613
9. Of the Levites & the Nethinims  623
10. Of the Nazarites & Rechabites  625

Locus 21, Of Scared Actions

11. Of Sacrifices  628

Locus 22

12. Of Holy Things

Locus 23, Of Sacred Places

13. Of the Tabernacle of Moses  649
14. Of the Vessels of the Tabernacle  653
15. Of the Temple  660
16. Of Remaining Sacred Places  666

Locus 24, Of Sacred Times

17. Of the Times of the Jews & Specially of the Sabbath & the New Moon  669
18. Of the Three Annual Festivals  673
19. Of the Remaining Feasts  679

Locus 25

Of the Private Ceremonies of the Jews & of the Abrogation of All

20. Of the Clothing of the Jews  684
21. Of the Distinguishing of Foods  686
22. Of Cleanness, Uncleanness & the Legal Purifications  690
23. Of the Abrogation of the Ceremonial Law  696

Locus 26

24. Of the Judicial Law  699

Locus 27, Of the Economy of Law & Grace under the Old Testament

25. Of the Legal Economy & its Attributes  702
26. Of the Permanence of the Promise  & of Grace under the Old Testament  708
27. Of the Antiquation of the Old Testament & its Approaching unto Abolition  712

Locus 28, Of Revelation & the Word under the Legal Economy

28. Of Moses, & a whole account of him  714
29. Of the Revelation Made to the High Priest by the Urim & Thummim & the Rest of the Prophets  718
30. Of the Written Law  720

Locus 29

Of the Sacraments & Sacramental Signs under the Law

31. Of the Passover  722
32. Of the Remaining Sacraments  729

Locus 30, Of the Church under the Law

33. Of the Latitude & State of the Church under the Law, in General  733
34. Of the Church under Joshua & the Judges  736
35. Of the Church under the Kings  739
36. Of the Church in Babylon  743
37. Of the Church after the Babylonian Captivity under teachers & high priests  746
38. Of the Church under the Rule & Princes of the Hasmoneans  754
39. Of the Sects of the Jews  758
40. Of the Church under Herod & its State under the Coming of Christ  764

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Volume 2

Book 5, Of the Messiah & his Person & State

Locus 31, of the New Testament

1. Of the Nature of the New Testament  1
2. Of the Good Things of the New Testament  4
3. Of the Beginning of the New Testament  10

Locus 32, of the Coming of the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth

4. Of the Forerunner of the Messiah, John the Baptist  12
5. Of the Advent of the Messiah  15
6. Of Jesus from Nazareth, the Messiah  19
7. Of the Errors of the Jew on this Subject  22

Locus 33, of the Person of Christ & the Incarnation

8. Of the Person & Natures of Christ  25
9. Of the Incarnation, Conception & Nativity of Christ  37

Locus 34, of the Life & Offices of Christ

10. Of the Private Life of Christ  44
11. Of the Initiation & Anointing of Christ  49
12. Of the Prophetic Office of Christ  52
13. Of the Miracles of Christ  64
14. Of the Priestly Office of Christ  69
15. Of the Kingly Office of Christ  77
16. Of the Obedience of Christ  84

Locus 35, of the Humiliation of Christ

17. Of the Sufferings of Christ  87
18. Of the Death of Christ  93
19. Of the Satisfaction & the Fruits of the Death of Christ  97
20. Of the Object of the Death of Christ, or for those whom Christ Died  116
21. Of the Burial & Descent of Christ to Inferos  125

Locus 36

Of the Exaltation of Christ, & what Follows upon it

22. Of the Exalted State & Resurrection of Christ  130
23. Of the Ascension of Christ  137
24. Of the Session of Christ to the Right Hand of the Father  142
25. Of the Gospel  147
26. Of the Calling of the Gentiles  150
27. Of the Judgments on the Jews  154

Book 6, of the Benefits of Christ

Locus 37, of the Chief Benefits of Christ

1. Of the Grace of Christ  161
2. Of the Calling to Salvation  173
3. Of Regeneration  179
4. Of Faith  182

Locus 38

Of the Progress of the Benefits of Christ in Justification & the Annexed Benefits to it

5. Of Justification  194
6. Of Adoption & Christian Liberty  218

Locus 39

Of the Internal Benefits of Christ: Sanctification & others connected to it

7. Of Sanctification  226
8. Of Good Works, & the Necessity & Merit of them  235
9. Of Repentance  246

Locus 40

Of the Consummation of the Benefits of Christ

10. Of the Glorification of this Life, where is treated of the Perseverance of the Saints & the Certainty of Salvation  266
11. Of Death & the State of Man After it  276

Book 7

Of the Word & Sacraments of the New Testament

Locus 41

Of Revelation & the Word under the Economy of the New Covenant

1. Of the Word of God under the New Covenant, & of the Labors of Men around that  294
2. Of Creeds & Confessions  307
3. Of the Foundation & Fundamental Articles  308

Locus 42

4. Of the Sacraments in General  317
5. Of the Sacraments of the Old & New Covenant in General, & of the Fitness & Discrimination of Them  327

Locus 43, of Baptism

6. Of the Institution of Baptism  332
7. Of the Administration of Baptism  338
8. Of the Thing Signified in Baptism  349
9. Of the Adjuncts of Baptism  353

Locus 44

Of the Sacred Supper & Other Rituals

10. Of the Names, Persons, Symbols & External Rituals of the Sacred Supper  360
11. Of the Thing Signified in the Sacred Supper  378
12. Of the Effects of the Eucharist, of Union with Christ & of the Chewing of his Body  383
13. Of the Presence of the Body of Christ in the Sacred Supper  390
14. Of Transubstantiation & Consubstantiation  393
15. Of the Mass  403
16. Of Extra Sacraments  415
17. Of the Remaining Rituals of the Worship of the New Covenant  421

Book 8

Of the Church of the New Covenant, & of its State & End

Locus 45, of the Church of the New Covenant

1. Of the Name, Nature & Attributes of the Church of the New Covenant  427
2. Of the Marks of the Church  438

Locus 46, of the Government & Discipline of the Church

3. Of the Head of the Church  442
4. Of Ecclesiastical Laws  446
5. Of Ecclesiastical Discipline  450

Locus 47, of the Ministers of the Church of the New Covenant

6. Of the Extraordinary Ministers of the New Covenant  468
7. Of the Ordinary Ministers of the New Covenant  476
8. Of the Union of Churches, & of the Councils & Synods of Them  493

Locus 48, of the Magistrate

9. Of the Magistrate, & of his Law & Office about Civil Things  503
10. Of the Law and Office of the Magistrate about the Sacred  515

Locus 49, of the Corrupt Church of the New Covenant

11. Of Corrupt Doctrine under the New Covenant  527
12. Of a Corrupt Form of Government under the New Covenant  531
13. Of Bishops, Archbishops, Patriarchs & Cardinals  536

Locus 50, of the Pope & the Antichrist

14. Of the Pope & his Advancement  542
15. On the Monarchial Government of the Church  549
16. Of the Monarchy & Vicarage of Christ by Peter the Apostle being Commissioned  553
17. Of the Succession of the Roman Pontiffs in the Monarchy of Peter  564
18. Of the Anti-Christ  573
19. Of the twofold Beast, & of the Church with that Intermixture  589

Locus 51

Of the Abolition of Anti-Christ & the Last Times

20. Of the Liberation of the Church from the Anti-Christ & of the Reformation of it  593
21. Of the Reign of the Church & the Last Times  601

Locus 52, of the Last Things

22. Of the Resurrection of the Dead  606
23. Of the Last Judgment  618
24. Of the Consummation of the World  627
25. Of Eternal Life & Death  632

A Deliberation on Blessedly Undertaking Theological Study

1. Of Preparation to Theological Study  653
2. Of Theological Study Itself  663
3. Of the Use & Exercise of Theological Study  671

Wittich, Christopher

Theological Exercises  (Boutesteyn, 1682)

Wittich (1625-1687)

Table of Contents

1. God, the Governor of the World  1
2. The Humble & Exalted Christ, or of the State of Humiliation & Exaltation of Christ  191
3. The Persevering & Certain Faith of the Saints, or of the Perseverance & Certainty of the Faithful  247
4. The Counterfeit Virtues of the Gentiles, or the Truth of Good Works  281
5. Fundamental Truths & Errors with Appendices, or Twelve Questions of the Papists  355

Inaugural Lecture on the Truth of the Divine Oracles & the Falsity of the Gentile Oracles (1671)  395

Peace-Making Theology, in which various theological problems that are commonly brought up between Reformed Theologians are Ventilated, while the [Helpful] Use of Cartesian Philosophy in Diverse Parts of Theology is Demonstrated, & the Dissertation on the Abuse of Cartesian Philosophy in the Things of Theology & Faith by Samuel Maresius is Modestly Responded to   (Doude, 1671; Leiden, 1675)

Rissen, Leonard – A Sum of Didactic and Elenctic Theology, out of Our Theologians, especially out of Francis Turretin’s Institutes of Theology, so augmented & Illustrated  (Bern, 1676; 1690)

Here is an introduction to the life of Rissen (1636-1700) with his chapter on Justification in English.

1. Of Theology  2
2. Of Scripture  15
3. Of God  64
4. Of the Most Holy Trinity  98
5. Of the Decrees of God  111
6. Of Predestination  124
7. Of Creation  147
8. Of the Providence of God  186
9. Of the Law & the Fall  203
10. Of the Covenant of Grace  257
11. Of Christ  268
12. Of the Offices of Christ  314
13. Of Conversion & Faith  371
14. Of Justification  411
15. Of the Decalogue & Good Works  456
16. Of the Church  554
17. Of the Sacraments  671
18. Of the Last Things  767

Essenius, Andreas – A Dogmatic Compendium of Theology, with a Tract on the Rule of Preaching by Johannes Hoornbeek  (Utrecht, 1685)  The table of contents is on p. 796

Essenius (1618-1677)

Table of Contents

1 – The Nature of Theology   1
2 – Faith   23
3 – Sacred Scripture   43
4 – God   97
5 – The Divine Persons   148
6 – The Decree of God   172
7 – Creation   193
8 – Providence   228
9 – The Legal Covenant   249
10 – Sin   387
11 – The Evangelical Covenant   432
12 – Christ the Mediator   474
13 – The Procuring of Salvation   535
14 – Calling and Regeneration   555
15 – Justification, Reconciliation and Adoption   566
16 – Sanctification   613
17 – Preservation and Confirmation   629
18 – Of Sealing   643
19 – Glorification   702
20 – The Church   726

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Defense by which a Preface of Johann Wajen, A Synopsis of Herozoici, Prefixed to A Modest Censure is Recalled  [That the Authority of Sacred Scripture Ought to be Added to the Conscience]

Book 1

1. Of the [Greek] Term Diathekes [Testament]  1
2. Whether it Signifies the Eternal Counsel of Grace  5
3. Of the Difference between the Old & New Testament  7
4. Of the Three Economies  10

Book 2

1. Of the Nature of the Surety of Christ  15
2. Of the Principle of God in Accepting a Surety  22

Book 3

1. Of the Nature of the Old Testament  25
2. Of the Place, Gal. 4:24  32

Book 4

1. Of the Sacrifices Before Moses  37
2. Of the Origin of the Ceremonial Law  41
3. Of the Nature of the Decalogue  48

Book 5

1. Of the Difference between the State of the Fathers Before & After Moses  53
2. Of the State of the Fathers under the Old Testament  60
3. Of the Fathers under Guilt [before the Atonement]  64
4. Of the Fathers under Wrath  69
5. Of the Fathers under the Curse  76
6. Of the Non-Tranquil Consciences of the Same  81
7. Of the Fear of Death under the Old Testament  88
8. Of the Rule of the Devil in the Old Testament  93
9. Of the Power of Angels in the Old Testament  99
10. Of the Power of gods in Lands  106
11. Of the Spirit of Servitude  114
12. Of Justification or Paresi under the Old Testament  121
13. Of the Place, Heb. 11 at the end  129

Table of Contents

Book 1, Of Knowing God

Preliminaries of Natural Theology

1. It is agitated of Natural Theology in General  1
2. Of Natural Religion  2
3.  Of Written Truths out of the First Knowledge [Scientia]  4
4. Of the Principle of Natural Religion  8
5. Of the Distribution of this Little Work  13

Part 1, Of the Knowledge [Cognitione] of God in Itself

Ch. 1, It is Agitated of God & his Attributes  14

Section 1, of the Nature of God  14
Section 2, of the Attributes of the Divine Essence  15

A. Of the Independence of the Supreme Entity  15
B. Of the Infinity of Him  17
C. Of the Immutability of Him  19
D. Of the Simplicity of Him  21

Section 3, of the Attributes of Existence  25

A. Of the Necessary Existence & Primacy of God  25
B. Of the Eternity of God  26
C. Of Omnipresence  29
D. Of Incomprehensibility  31

Section 4, of the Attributes of the Life of God  32

A. Of the Intellectual Life of God  32
B. Of the Incorporeal God & that which Follows  34
C. Of the Intellect of God  38
D. Of the Will of God  44
E. Of the Ability & Power of God  50

Ch. 2, Of the Virtues of God  57

Section 1, Of the Truth of God  58
Section 2, Of the Goodness of God  60
Section 3, Of the Holiness of God  62
Section 4, Of the Justice of God  65

Ch. 3, Of the Unity of God  68

Part 2, Of the Knowledge of God Through his Works

Ch. 1, It is Agitated of the Decree of God  76
Ch. 2, Of Creation  82
Ch. 3, Of the Providence of God  88

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Book 2, Of Worshipping God

Ch. 1, It is Agitated of Considering Man Returning unto God  96
Ch. 2, of the Law of Nature  99

Section 1, Of the Most Basic Universal Laws, even the Principles of the Law of Nature  99
Section 2, Of Particular Laws  102

A. Of our Offices Towards God & Principles Derived out of that  102
B. Of Excelling Offices Respecting Us  105
C. Of Offices Respecting the Society of Life which ought to be Observed  113

Excursus 1, of Righteousness & its Precepts  116
Excursus 2, of Neighborly Love Owed & its Precepts  120

Ch. 3, Of the Hope of a Better Life & its Opposite  124
Ch. 4, Of Sin Advancing in the World & Predominating Between Men  132
Ch. 5, Of that which Follows Sin  136

Book 3, of Evangelical Preparation

Ch. 1, Of a Certain Quasi-restitution & Restoration unto God  139
Ch. 2, Of the Requisites of True Reconciliation with God  142
Ch. 3, Of an Historical Investigation Examining the Traditions of the True Means of Salvation  144

Section 1, Inquiring whether the Theology of the Gentiles Held Forth the Solid Hope of Recovering Salvation  144
Section 2, Inquiring till how long the Mosaic Religion would Satisfy  149

A. Of the Current Religion of the Jews  152
B. Of the Religion of Mohammedans  154
C. Of the Christian Religion  155

van Mastricht, Petrus – Theoretical and Practical Theology  (Utrecht, 1724)

Van Mastricht (1630-1706)  This article contains a bio of van Mastricht and his ‘The Best Method of Preaching’ in English.

Table of Contents

Book 1, the Precognitions of Theology

1. Of Theology  1 Tim. 6:2-3  1
2. Of Scripture  2 Tim. 3:16-17  17
3. Of the Distribution of Theology  2 Tim. 1:13  47

Book 2, of Faith in the Triune God

1. Of Saving Faith  50
2. Of the Existence & Knowledge of God  Heb. 11:6  65
3. Of the Essence & Independence of God  Ex. 3:13-14  76
4. Of the Names of God  Ex. 3:15  85
5. Of the Attributes of God in General  Ex. 33:18,23  92
6. Of the Spirituality & Simplicity of God  Job 4:24  98
7. Of the Immutability of God  James 1:17  107
8. Of the Unity of God  Dt. 6:4  111
9. Of the Infinity & Magnitude of God  Ps. 145:3  117
10. Of the Immensity & Omnipresence of God  Ps. 139:7-11  121
11. Of the Eternity of God  Ps. 90:1-2  127
12. Of the Life & Immortality of God  Jn. 5:26  134
13. Of the Intellect, Knowledge [Scientia] & Wisdom of God  Rom. 11:33-34  142
14. Of the Truthfulness & Faithfulness of God  152
15. Of the Will & Affections of God  Ps. 115:3  157
16. Of the Goodness of God  Mt. 19:17  170
17. Of the Love, Grace, Compassion, Longsuffering & Mercy of God  Ex. 34:6  177
18. Of the Righteousness of God  Ps. 119:137  192
19. Of the Holiness of God  Lev. 19:2  201
20. Of the Power & Ability of God  Eph. 3:20-21  208
21. Of the All-Sufficiency & Perfection of God  Gen. 17:1  219
22. Of the Majesty & Glory of God  Isa. 42:8  225
23. Of the Blessedness of God  Ps. 16:11  231
24. Of the Most Holy Trinity  2 Cor. 13:13  235
25. Of God the Father  Eph. 3:14-15  246
26. Of God the Son  Ps. 11:7-8  250
27. Of God the Holy Spirit  Jn. 14:26  261

Book 3, of the Operations of God

1. Of the Actions & Decrees of God  Eph. 1:11  272
2. Of Predestination  Rom. 9:22-23  281
3. Of Election  Eph. 1:4-6  290
4. Of Reprobation  Jude 4  301
5. Of Creation in General  Gen. 1:1  311
6. Of the World & the Work of Six Days  Ex. 20:11  319
7. Of the Good Angels  Heb. 7:7  339
8. Of the Bad Angels  352
9. Of Man & the Image of God  Gen. 1:26-29  365
10. Of the Providence of God in General  Rom. 11:36  388
11. Of Special Providence  Dt. 30:16-18  404
12. Of the Covenant of Nature  Gen. 11:16-17  413

Book 4, of the Apostasy of Man from God

1. Of the Violation of the Covenant of Nature  Gen. 3:1-7  417
2. Of Original Sin  Rom. 5:12  441
3. Of Actual Sin  James 1:13-15  458
4. Of the Punishment & State of Sin  Rom. 7:24-25  472

Book 5, of the Redemption of Christ

1. Of the Covenant of Grace  Gen. 3:15  489
2. Of the Mediator of the Covenant of Grace  Heb. 9:15  522
3. Of the Names of the Mediator  Acts 15:26  522
4. Of the Person of the Mediator  Jn. 1:14  535
5. Of the Three Offices of the Mediator  Heb. 3:1  550
6. Of the Mediator, the Prophet  Dt. 18:15  554
7. Of the Mediator, the Priest  Ps. 110:4  562
8. Of the Mediator, the King  Ps. 2:6  575
9. Of the Humiliation of the Mediator  Phil. 2:6-8  587
10. Of the Incarnation of the Mediator  Lk. 1:35  596
11. Of the Life of the Mediator  2 Cor. 4:10  615
12. Of the Death of the Mediator  Mt. 27:29-51  635
13. Of the Descent of the Mediator  Ps. 16:9-10  658
14. Of the Exaltation of the Mediator in General  Phil. 2:9-11  668
15. Of the Resurrection of the Mediator  Mk. 16:9  676
16. Of the Ascension of the Mediator  Acts 1:11  691
17. Of the Session of the Mediator at the Right Hand of God  Eph. 1:20-22  702
18. Of the Redemption of the Mediator itself  Mt. 20:28  710

Book 6, of the Application of Redemption

1. Of the Nature of the Application  1 Pet. 1:2  737
2. Of the Calling of the Redeemed  1 Pet. 2:9  747
3. Of the Regeneration of the Redeemed  Job 3:5  757
4. Of the Conversion of the Redeemed  Jer. 31:18-19  774
5. Of the Union of the Redeemed with Christ  1 Cor. 1:30  789
6. Of the Justification of the Redeemed  Rom. 3:22-27  799
7. Of the Adoption of the Redeemed  1 Jn. 3:1  823
8. Of the Sanctification of the Redeemed  1 Thess. 5:23  832
9. Of the Glorification of the Redeemed  Rom. 8:39  855

Book 7, of the Church & Ecclesiastical Things

1. Of the Nature of the Church  Eph. 5:25  866
2. Of the Ministers of the Church  Eph. 4:11-12  885
3. Of the Sacraments of the Church in General  Gen. 17:11  907
4. Of the Sacraments of Regeneration  Col. 2:12  915
5. Of the Sacraments of Nourishment  Mk. 14:22-24  928
6. Of the Discipline of the Church  Mt. 16:19  945
7. Of the Government of the Church  1 Tim. 5:17  955

Book 8, of the Dispensation of the Covenant of Grace

1. Of the Dispensation under the Patriarchs  Eph. 1:9-10  963
2. Of the Dispensation under Moses  Dt. 5:2
3. Of the Dispensation under Christ  Jer. 31:31-35
4. Of the Dispensation under Eternity  Rev. 7:1 to ch.11  1101

The Idea of Moral Theology

Book 1, of the Observance of Faith in General

1. Of the Obedience of Faith, & Obedience  1203
2. Of the Study & the Neglect of the Law  1203
3. Of the Keeping & the Neglect of Conscience  1204
4. Of Knowledge & Ignorance  1205
5. Of Humility & Pride before God  1205
6. Of the Fear & Scorn of God  1206
7. Of Zeal & Lukewarmness  1207
8. Of Sincerity & Hypocrisy  1208
9. Of Virtue & Vice [Vitio]  1209
10. Of Prudence & Imprudence  1210
11. Of Vigilance & Somnolescence  1211
12. Of Fortitude & Infirmity  1212
13. Of Confidence & Timidity  1213
14. Of Constancy & Levity  1214
15. Of Patience & Impatience  1215
16. Of Temperance & Intemperance  1216
17. Of Good & Bad Action  1217

Book 2, of Religion

1. Of Piety & Impiety  1219
2. Of Faith & Unbelief  1221
3. Of the Profession of, & the Denying of the Faith  1222
4. Of Hope & Desperation  1223
5. Of the Love & Hatred of God  1224
6. Of the Hearing of, & the Neglect of the Word of God  1226
7. Of the Exercise & Neglect of Prayer  1228
8. Of the Confession & Suppression of Sins  1230
9. Of the Use & Abuse of Vows  1232
10. Of an Oath & Perjury  1235
11. Of Communion with God & Alienation from Him  1236
12. Of the Institution of Worship, & of Superstition  1238
13. Of the Sanctification & Profanation of the Sabbath  1240

Book 3, of Righteousness & Injury to our Neighbor

1. Of Righteousness to our Neighbor in General, & of Injury  1243
2. Of Love & Ill-will to our Neighbor  1245
3. Of Honor & the Vilification of our Neighbor  1247
4. Of Humanity & Homicide  1249
5. Of Chastity & Luxury  1251
6. Of Commutative Justice & Theft  1253
7. Of Veracity & a Lie  1255
8. Of Contention & Concupiscence  1257

A Picture of the Theology of Asceticism, of the Exercise of Piety

Book 1, of the Practice of Piety in General

1. Of the Nature of the Practice of Piety & Incompetent Spirituality  1260
2. Of Progress in the Practice of Piety, & of Sufficiency  1261
3. Of the Practice of Impiety & its Refusal  1263

Book 2, of the Practice of Piety towards God

1. Of the Knowledge & Rejection of God  1264
2. Of Seeking & Fleeing God  1265
3. Of being Pleased & Displeased with God  1266
4. Of Walking with & Straying from God  1268
5. Of Benevolence & Malevolence to God  1271
6. Of the Private Worship of God in its Glory & Blasphemy  1272
7. Of the Public & Ecclesiastical Worship of God
8. Of Family Worship & its Neglect  1274
9. Of Daily Worship & its Neglect  1275
10. Of the Worship of God in Fasting  1277
11. Of Eucharistic Worship  1278
12. Of the Examination of Oneself & its Neglect  1279

Book 3, of the Practice of Piety towards one’s Neighbor

1. Of the Use & Abuse of Solitude  1281
2. Of Pious & Impious Familiar Intercourse with One’s Neighbor in General  1282
3. Of the Use & Abuse of Feasting  1285
4. Of Just & Injust Commerce  1286
5. Of Intercourse with the Afflicted by Consolation, & its Neglect  1288
6. Of Reproof of a Fall, & Communion in its Sins  1290
7. Of Intercourse with the Good by Love & Friendship  1293
8. Of Intercourse with the Bad & the Hostile  1294
9. Of Intercourse Between Superiors, Inferiors & Equals  1296

Book 4, of the Practice of Piety towards Oneself

1. Of a Purposed Occupation & Leisure  1300
2. Of the Use & Abuse of Provisions  1302
3. Of the Use & Abuse of Clothing  1304
4. Of the Use & Abuse of Recreations  1305
5. Of the Use & Abuse of Prosperity  1307
6. Of the Use & Abuse of the World & Worldly Things  1308
7. Of the Variety of Human Things  1310
8. Of the Tolerance & Abuse of the Cross  1312
9. Of the Use & Abuse of Trial [or Temptation]  1314
10. Of the Cross of the Body, & its Relief  1317
11. Of the Confoundings & Melancholy of Terrors  1318
12. Of Blasphemous Suggestions  1319
13. Of Spiritual Desertions  1320
14. Of Various General Doubtings  1322
15. Of Offices of Piety about Death  1322

Appendix:  A Discourse on the Best Method for Preaching

Andala, Ruard – A System of Theological-Physical Metaphysics, containing a Compendium of Natural Theology: a Paraphrase of the Principles of the Philosophy of Renee Descartes; & also a set of Seven Philosophical Dissertations (Franeker, 1711)

Andala (1665-1727) was a professor of philosophy and theology at Franeker.

Table of Contents

Part 1

1. It is asked: (1) Whether there is given an innate knowledge of God?  (2) Whether there are Theoretical Atheists?  (3) Whether it is ever permitted to seriously doubt of the Existence of God?

2. The Existence of God is demonstrated a priori.

3. A posteriori from the idea of God

4. From the Consideration of the Mind & Conscience

5. From the Contemplation of the Human Body

6. From the Union of the Mind with the Body

7. From the Consideration of the World, & especially from the Celestial Bodies

8. And Finally from the Contemplation of the Earth, Planets & Animals

Part 2

1. The Essence of God is Demonstrated to Consist in the Most Perfect Thought [Cogitatione]

2. It is Agitated of the PErfections of God in General, & the Division of Them

3. Of the Two Prior Attributes of the Existence of God: the Aseity & Independence of God

4. Of the Two Other Attributes of Existence: the Primacy & Eternity of God

5. Of the Two Attributes of the Divine Essence & so a Sum of Perfect Consideration: the Infinity & Incomprehensibility of God

6. Of the Three Others of the Divine Essence so Considered: the Immutability, Simplicity & Unity of God

7. OF the Active Essence, or of the Life of God; Even of the Intellect of God, & its Attributes: Intelligence, Knowledge [Scientia], Wisdom, Omniscience & Foreknowledge

8. Of the Will of God

9. Of the Liberty of the Divine Will, even of Spontaneity & Indifference

10. Of the Ability & Power, or of the Supreme Dominion of God

11. Of the Omnipresence of God

12. Of the Veracity & Goodness of God

13. Of the Holiness & Righteousness of God

14. Of the Blessedness of God

15. Of the Glory of God

16. Of the Insufficiency of Natural Theology

Part 3

1. It is Agitated of the Operations of God, specially of the Internal, or of the Decree of God

2. Of the Attributes of the Decree of God: (1) Liberty, (2) Eternity, (3) Immutability, (4) Wisdom, (5) Extent, (6) Unity

3. Of the Use of Natural Theology in this Place of the Decree of God.  Even of its Insufficiency to the Salvation of a Sinner

4. Of the Prime External Work of God, or of Creation, & especially of Created Things, which constitute the World

5. Of the Creation of the World itself

6. Of the Varied Process of Creation.  Even of its End.

7. Of the Use of Natural Theology in the the Place of Creation.  Even fo its Insufficiency.

8. Of the Following External Work of God, or of Providence, & Especially of Conservation.

9. Of Concursus & Government

10. Of the Objects of Divine Providence

11. Of the Providence of God about Evil

12. Of the Use of Natural Theology in the place of Providence.  Even of its Insufficiency.

Part 4

1. It is Agitated of Man, the Subject of Natural Religion

2. Of the Principles of Natural Religion, from the consideration of the Desires of Man

3. Of the Sum Good, even the Ultimate End of Natural Religion

4. Of Natural Religion, even of the way to True Blessedness

5. Of the Internal & External Objects of Virtue

6. Of Virtue in General

7. Of the Cardinal Virtues

8. Of Particular Virtues which are Directed to God & Ourselves

9. Of Virtues which are Directed towards our Neighbor

10. Of the Fruits & Advantages of Natural Religion and Virtues in this Life

11. Of the Final Advantage of Virtue in the Future Life, or of the Departing & Last End of Religion.

12. Of the Contrary Departing & Eternal Punishment of Impiety.  Even of the Insufficiency of Natural Theology & Religion for the Salvation of a Sinner

13. Of the Use of Natural Theology in this fourth part, specially about the Principle of Supernatural Theology.

7 Philosophical Dissertations

1. Of the a Priori Argument for the Existence of God

2. Of the Essence of the Human Mind

3. Of the Distinction of the Mind from the Body

4. Of the Union of the Mind with the Body

5. Of the Liberty of Will

6. Of the Immortality of the Human Mind

7. Of the Fluidity & Durableness of Bodies

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Vitringa, Sr., Campegius

The Doctrine of the Christian Religion, Summarily Described through Aphorisms, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8  d. 1722  The table of contents, or the analysis, is after the prolegomena of vol. 1, at the end, but otherwise at the beginning of the rest of the volumes.

Vitringa, Sr. (1659-1722) was a professor in Franeker and a Hebraist.  “…Vitringa…  maintained a fairly centrist Reformed position…  Vitringa and De Moor serve as codifiers and bibliographers of the earlier tradition, the former from a federalist, the latter from a nonfederalist perspective.”

“Admirable text-book, full of quotations.” – Howard Malcom

Table of Contents

Vol. 1

[1761 edition, fuller]
Prolegomena  1-41
Analysis [Outline] of Chs. 1-4  42-80

[1702 edition, appears shorter]
Ch. 1, Of Theology & its Prime Principle: Reason  1-10
Ch. 2, Of Sacred Scripture, the Other Principle of Theology  10-27
Ch. 3, Of God, his Nature, Attributes & Virtues  27-56
Ch. 4, Of the Mystery of the One God, Father, Son & Holy Spirit  57-88

Vol. 2

An Analysis of Ch. 5  1-11
Ch. 5, of the Counsel of the Divine Will  11-66

Of the Decrees of God  11-66

An Analysis of Ch. 6  67-78
Ch. 6, Of the Creation of the World, Angels & Men  78

Of Creation  78-98
Of Angels  98-125
Of Man  126-153
Of the Image of God  123-159

An Analysis of Ch. 7  160-168
Ch. 7, Of the Conservation & Government of Created Things in General, & Specially of Man  168-208

Of Providence  168-180
Of Conservation  181-186
Of Concursus  187-200
Of Government  201-208

Analysis of Ch. 8  209-216
Ch. 8, Of the Government of Upright Man.  Where is of the Covenant of Works  216-249

Of the State of Integrity  216-236
Of the Covenant of Works  237-249

Analysis of Ch. 9  249-253
Ch. 9, Of the Event of the Government of Upright Man.  Where is of the Fall of Man  254-274

Of the Fall of the First Parents  254-274

Analysis of Ch. 10  274-281
Ch. 10, Of Sin & its Consequences  282-321

Of Sin  282-284
Of the Nature of Sin  285-290
Of the Names of Sin  291
Of Concupiscence  292-295
Of the Effects of Sin  295-296
Of the Punishments of Sin  297-321

Analysis of Ch. 11  322-330
Ch. 11, Of the Effects of Sin, even the First in Man, which is in his Posterity  330-382

Of the Effects of Sin  330-332
Of Original Sin  332-361
Of Free Choice  362-372
Of Actual Sins  373-382

Analysis of Ch. 12  383-385
Ch. 12, Of that which is called the Antiquation of the Covenant of Works  385-390

Of the Antiquation of the Covenant of Works  385-390

Vol. 3

Analysis of Ch. 13  1-9
Ch. 13, Of the Testament of Grace  9-37

Of the Testament of Grace  9-15
Of the Testament of the Father  15-17
Of the Counsel of Peace  17-18
Of the Suretiship of Jesus Christ  19-20
Of the Requisites of the Office of the Mediator  21-32
Of the Testament of the Son  33-37

Analysis of Ch. 14  38-44
Ch. 14, Of Faith & Repentance  44-131

Of Faith  44-53
Of Fundamental Articles  54-68
Of the Nature of Faith  69-76
Of the Subject of Faith  77-78
Of the Union of the Faithful with Christ  79
Of the Faith of Infants  80-81
Of the Faith of Jesus Christ  82-84
Of Faith under the Old Testament  85-88
Of the Certainty of Faith  89-92
Of the Fruits of Faith  93-96
Of Historical Faith  96-97
Of the Faith of Miracles  98-99
Of Repentance  99-104
Of the Names of Repentance  105-106
Of the Aching of Sin  107-114
Of the Parts of Repentance  115-121
Of the Sacrament of Penance  122-124
Of Contrition  125-126
Of Articulated Confession  127-131

Analysis of Ch. 15  132-152
Ch. 15, Of the Actions, Faith & Repentance, which God works in the Sinner; of Calling & Regeneration  152-241

Of Calling  152-169
Of the Grace of Calling  170-205
Of Regeneration  206-241

Analysis of Ch. 16  242-253
Ch. 16, Of the Blessings of the Testament of Grace, with Faith & Repentance Connected; the Greatest of which is of the Justification of a Sinful Man by Faith; Likewise of Consequents of this: Peace, Adoption & Liberty  253-330

Of Justification  253-256
Of the term ‘Justified’  257-266
Of the Cause of Justification  267-278
Of the Obedience of Christ  279-289
Of the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ  289-294
Of Justifying Faith  295-310
Of the Parts of Justification  311-312
Of the Remission of Sinners  313-316
Of the Reconciliation of Paul & James  317-320
Of Reconciliation, or Peace with God  321-322
Of Adoption & Liberty  322-324
Of Christian Liberty  325-326
Of Trust, etc.  327-328
Of the Certainty of Justification  329-330

Analysis of Ch. 17  331-337
Ch. 17, Of Sanctification, Good Works & the Perseverance of the Saints  338-435

Of Sanctification  343-344
Of Hebrew Terms  345-346
OF the Means of Sanctification  347-349
Of Good Works  350-351
Of the Virtues of the Gentiles  352-357
Of the Necessity of Good Works  358-373
Of the Merit of Good Works  374-383
Of the Imperfection of Good Works  384-391
Of the Imperfection of the Saints  392-408
Of Supererogatory Works  409-410
Of the Grades of the Saints  411-412
Of the Wrestling of the Spirit & of the Flesh  413-415
Of the Perseverance of the Saints  415-435

Vol. 4

Analysis of Ch. 18  1-7
Ch. 18, Of [the Last Things &] Glorification  7-215

Of Glorification  7-8
Of Life Eternal  9-17
Of the Vision of God  18-25
Of Life Eternal  26-28
Of Blessedness in this Life  28-30
Of the Death of the Body  31-39
Of the Immortality of the Soul  40-54
Of the State of the Soul After Death  55-69
Of the Purging of Souls  70-81
Of Soul-Sleep  82-86
of Metempsychosi  87-97
Of the Twofold Place of Dead Souls  98-102
Of the Apparition of Souls  103-104
Of the Particular Judgment  105-107
Of the Resurrection of Dead Adversaries  108-120
Of the Resurrection of Dead Defenders  121-123
Of the Truth of the Resurrection of the Dead  124-128
Of the Identity of Resurrected Bodies  129-143
Of the Subject of the Resurrection  144-149
Of the Cause of the Resurrection  150-151
Of the Place of the Resurrection  152-154
Of the Change of the Living  155-156
Of the Last Judgment  157-160
Of the Coming of Christ to Judgment  161-162
Of the Judge in the Last Judgment  163-164
Of Judging  165-166
Of the Object of an Actual Judgment  167-168
Of the Time of the Last Judgment  169-171
Of the Place of the Last Judgment  172-174
Of Eternal Death  175-177
Of Grades of Glory  178-185
Of the End of the World  186-201
Of the Conflagration of the World  202-211
Of the New World  212-215

Analysis of Ch. 19  216-218
Ch. 19, Of the Covenant of Grace, which has an Eternal Superstructure & Various Dispensations of it  218-254

Of the Covenant of Grace  218-225
Of the Condition of the Covenant of Grace  226-232
Of the Unity of the Covenant of Grace  233-246
Of the Extent of the Covenant of Grace  247-249
Of the Economies of the Covenant of Grace  250-254

Analysis of Ch. 20  255-266
Ch. 20, Of the Time Period of the Promise of the Blessings of the Testament of Grace, in which three intervals are set  266-569

Of the Economies of the Old Testament  266-267
Of the First Time-Interval of the Promise from Adam to Abraham  268

Of the Proto-Evangel  269-274
Of the Origin of Sacrifices  275-280
Of the Prophet Enoch  281-285
Of the Rainbow  286-288

Of the Second Time-Interval of the Promise, from Abraham to Moses  288

Of the place, Ex. 12:40  284-294
Of the Divine Covenants  294-295
Of the Nature of the Old Covenant  196-299
Of the Difference Between the Old & New Testament  300-304
Of the Origin of Circumcision  305-308
Of Melchizedek  309-312
Of the Paschal Lamb  313-315
Of the Laws  316-320
Of the Decalogue  321-322
Of the Author & Promulgation of the Decalogue  323-328
Of the Nature of the Decalogue  329-335
Of the Use of the Decalogue under the New Testament  336-344
Of the Tables of the Law  345-348
Of the Division of the Decalogue  349-354
Of the the Accessories to  the Decalogue  355-360
Of the Sabbath  360-362
Of the Origin of the Sabbath  363-401
Of the Nature of the Fourth Precept  402-472
Whether the 1st Day, out of the 7th Day, is to be Observed under the New Covenant  473-484
Of the Origin of the Lord’s Day  485-517
Of the Observation of the Lord’s Day  518-523
Of the Duration of the Lord’s Day  524-528
Of the Name of the Sabbath  529-532
Of the Laws of Moses  533-534
Of the Reasons for the Ceremonial Law  535-547
Of the Sinaitic Covenant  548-563
Of the Moabite Covenant  564-569

Vol. 5

Analysis of Ch. 21  1-15
Ch. 21, Of the Time Period of the Fulfillment of the Promises made to the Fathers, or of the Testament of Grace Opened  15-619

Of the Messiah  15-25
Of the Names of the Messiah  25-26

Of the Name of ‘the Son of God’  27-36
Of the Name of ‘Christ’  37-38
Of the Name of ‘Jesus’  39-42
Of the Name of ‘Nazarene’  43-44

Of the Person of the Messiah & his Twofold Nature  45

Of the Incarnation of the Son of God  45-69
Of the Two Natures in Christ  70-202
Of the Union of the Two Natures  203-244
Of the Effects of the Personal Union  245-314

Of the Offices of the Messiah  315-330

Of the Prophetic Office of Christ  331-402
Of the Priestly Office of Christ  403-416
Of the Kingly Office of Christ  417-448

Of the Twofold State of the Messiah  449-451

Of the Messiah’s State of Humiliation  452-459

Of the Virgin Mary  460-472
Of the Conception of Jesus Christ  473-508
Of the Nativity of Jesus Christ  509-523
Of the Subjection of Christ  524-530
Of the Circumcision of Christ  531-532
Of the Flight of Christ into Egypt  533-534
Of the Private Life of Christ  535-538
Of the Baptism of Christ  539-540
Of the Temptation & Fasting of Christ  541-542
Of the Time of the Ministry of Christ  543-544
Of the Years of the Ministry of Christ  545-546
Of the Last Supper of Christ  547-552
Of the Sufferings of Christ  553-559
Of the Descent of Christ to Inferos  560-578
Of the Death of Christ by the Cross  579-584

Of Christ’s State of Exaltation  585-589

Of the Resurrection of Christ  590-598
Of the Ascension of Christ  599-610
Of the Session of Christ to the Right Hand of God  611-619

Vol. 6

Analysis of Ch. 22  1-4
Ch. 22, Of the which Justifies, having been brought by Christ, or of the Satisfaction of Christ  5-191

Of the Satisfaction of Christ  5-58
Of the term ‘Satisfaction’  59-61
Of the terms ‘Satisfaction’ & ‘Merit’  62-66
Of the Necessity of the Satisfaction of Christ  67-74
Of the Truth of the Satisfaction of Christ  75-100
Of the Perfection of the Satisfaction of Christ  101-121
Of the Effects of the Satisfaction of Christ  122-130
Of the Object of the Satisfaction of Christ  131-191

Analysis of Ch. 23  192-197
Ch. 23, Of the Blessings of the Testament of Grace, which are now said to have begun in the New Testament; likewise of the Gospel & the New Covenant  198-300

Of the Blessings of the New Testament, etc.  198-199
Of the Defects of the Old Testament  200-204
Of the Antiquation of the Old Testament  205-206
Of the Blessings of the New Testament  207-218
Of πάρεσιν & ἄφεσιν [remission & pardon, the difference between]  218-230
Of the Divine Testament & Covenant  230-252
Of the Gospel  253-256
Of the Law & Gospel  257-291
Of the Beginning of the New Testament  292-300

Analysis of Ch. 24  301-308
Ch. 24, Of the Sacraments of the New Covenant  308-621

Of the Sacraments of the New Covenant  308-310
Of the term ‘Sacrament’  311-320
Of the term ‘Mystery’, etc.  321-322
Of the term ‘Sacrament’  323-330
Of the Definition of ‘Sacrament’  331-338
Of the Author of the Sacraments  339

Of the Genera of Sacraments  340-342
Of the Parts of Sacraments  343-344
Of the Sign of the Sacrament  345-352
Of the Parts of the Sign of the Sacrament  353-354
Of the Seal of the Sacrament  355-356
Of the Thing Signified by the Sacrament  357-398
Of the Form of the Sacrament  399-400
Of the Word of the Institution of the Sacrament  401-407
Of the Sacramental Union  408-415
Of the Sacramental Declaration  416-421
Of the Ends of the Sacraments  422-432
Of the Efficacy of the Sacraments  433-434
Of the Effects of the Sacraments  435-436
Of the Necessity of the Sacraments  437-444

Of the Sacraments of the Covenant of Works  445-448
Of the Sacraments of the Old & New Testament  449-450
Of the Sacraments of the Old Testament  451-458
Of the Administrations of the Sacraments  459-464
Of the Subject of the Sacraments  465-519

Of the Sacraments of Greeks  520-524
Of the Sacraments of the Papists  525-559
Of the Ceremonies of the Papists  560-563
Of the Sacraments of the Lutherans  564-587
Of the Sacraments of the Socinians  588-597
Of the Sacraments of the Mennonites  598-608
Of the Sacraments of the Remonstrants  609-614
Of the Sacraments of the Mystics  615-616
Of the Sacraments of the Quakers  617-618
Of the Sacraments of the Herrnhuthians  619
Of the Sacraments of the Naturalists  620-621

Vol. 7

Ch. 24, Of Baptism  1-415

Of the term ‘Baptism’  1-9
Of the Definition of ‘Baptism’  10-11
Of the Sign of Baptism  12-16

Of Immersion & Sprinkling  16-26
Of the Number of Immersion [Should it be done 1 or 3 times?]  27-30
Of the Formula of Baptism  31-36

Of the Antiquity of Baptism  36-38
Of the Origin of Baptism  39-48
Of the Predictions & Types of Baptism  49-52
Of the Baptism of John  53-54
Of the Baptism of Christ  55-60
Of the Baptism of the Disciples  61-62

Of the Thing Signified in Baptism  63-66
Of the Form of Baptism  67-68
Of the Ends of Baptism  69-70
Of the Efficacy of Baptism  71-73

Of the Administrators of Baptism  74-88
Of the Subject of Baptism  89-90
Of the Baptism of Adults  91-97
Of Paedobaptism  98-157
Of Sponsors for Baptism  158-162

Of the Necessity of Baptism  163-167
Of the Repetition of Baptism  168-170
Of the Place of Baptism  171-174
Of the Time of Baptism  175-176

Of the Baptism of the Old Christians  177-180
Of the Baptism of the Greeks  181-204
Of the Baptism of the Papists  205-252
Of the Confirmation of the Papists  253-267
Of the Confirmation of the Anglicans  268-270
Of the Baptism of the Lutherans  271-295

Of the Baptism of the Socinians  296-332
Of the Baptism of the Mennonites  333-363
Of the Baptism of the Baptists in Britain  364-365
Of the Baptism of the [Dissenting] Presbyterians & Independents [in Britain]  366-367
Of the Baptism of the Remonstrants  368-386

Of the Baptism of the ‘Associations’  387-388
Of the Baptism of the Labadians  389-390
Of the Baptism of the Joristians  391-392
Of the Baptism of the Schwenckfeldians  393-394
Of the Baptism of the Weigelians  395-396
Of the Baptism of the Mystics  397-404
Of the Baptism of the Quakers  405-408
Of the Baptism of the Hernnhuthites  409-412
Of the Baptism of the Indifferentists  413-414
Of the Baptism of the Deists  415

Vol. 8

Ch. 24, Of the Lord’s Supper  1-634

Of the Lord’s Supper  1-8
Of the Names of the Sacred Supper  9-10
Of the Author of the Sacred Supper  11-12
Of the Time of the Sacred [Last] Supper  12-29
Of the Place of the Sacred [Last] Supper  29-30

Of the Reclining at the Table by Christ  31-32
Of the Washing of the Feet of the Apostles  33-40

Of the Material of the Sacred Supper  41-42
Of the Elements of the Sacred Supper  43-48
Of the Eucharistic Bread  49-70
Of the Eucharistic Wine  71-130
Of the Rites of the Sacred Supper  131-132

Of the Receiving of Bread  133-134
Of the Blessing of the Bread  135-140
Of the Breaking of Bread  141-146
Of the Distribution of the Bread  147-154
Of the Words of Christ in the Sacred Supper  155-157
Of the Command: ‘Eat’  157-160
Of the Words of the Institution of the Supper  161-216

Of the Eucharistic Cup  217-234
Of the Receiving of the Cup  235-236
Of the Blessing of the Cup  237-240
Of the Giving of the Cup  241-242
Of the Command: ‘Drink’  243-244

Of the Words of the Institution of the Supper  245-266
Of the Thing Signified by the Sacred Supper  267-268
Of the Presence of Christ in the Supper  269-306
Of the Analogy Between the Sign & the Things Signified  307-312
Of the Things Signified by the Rites  313-314
Of the Form of the Sacred Supper  315-318
Of the Ends of the Sacred Supper  319-320
Of the Effects of the Sacred Supper  321-326

Of the Administration of the Sacred Supper  327-346
Of Judas Iscariot  347-348

Of the Subject of the Sacred Supper  349-377
Of the Offices of the Communicants  378-398
Of the Necessity of the Sacred Supper  399-400
Of the Repetition of the Sacred Supper  401-406
Of the Place of the Sacred Supper  407-410
Of the Time of the Sacred Supper  411-414
Of the Table of the Sacred Supper  415-422

Of the Sacred Supper of the Greeks  423-634

Of Sacred Observations, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6  (Franeker, 1689 ff.)  The tables of contents are after the prefaces.

Venema, Herman  1726 ff.

See his numerous disputations at PRDL.

Wesselius, Johannes – Academic Dissertations  (1734)

Wesselius (1671-1745).  A few of his dissertations are on PRDL.

van den Honert, Johann

Institutions of Didactic & Elenctic Theology  (1735)  The whole work is in outline form, with various orations appended.

Honert (1693-1758)

Table of Contents

Preliminary: of Theology & Sacred Scripture  1-28

Book 1, of the Covenant of Nature & of Works

1. Of God  29-51
2. Of the Decree of God  52-59
3. Of Creation & the Providence of God  60-70
4. Of the Creation of Man, & of his First State  71-84
5. Of Angels  85-96
6. Of the Corruption of the Stock of Man  97-115

Book 2, of the Business of Grace

1. Of the Author of Grace: God the Father, Son & Holy Spirit  116-134
2. Of the Eternal Design to Work Grace & Wrath  134-152
3. Of the Suretiship of the Son & the Pact of Human Salvation  153-161
4. Of the Covenanting of the Covenant of Grace, by Calling & Faith  162-176
5. Of the Justification of a Sinner  176-184
6. Of the Sanctification of a Sinner  185-195
7. Of the Communion of the Church & of the Use of the Seals of the Covenant  196-209
8. Of the Glorification of Man after Death  209-216

Inaugural Oration on Regeneration  217
Inaugural Oration on Ecclesiastical History: Theologians Most Necessary  259
Oration on the Mutual Tolerance of Christians  299
Inaugural Oration on the Wisdom & Art of Ecclesiastical Oratory  361

Institutions of Typical, Emblematic and Prophetic Theology  (1738)  Scripture Index

Voget, Albert – Institutions of Christian Theology  (Gronigen, 1736)

Voget (1695-1771) was a professor of theology at Gronigen and Utrecht.  According to Wikipedia he tried to combine the theologies of Cocejus and Voetius.

Table of Contents

The Preliminary Part

1. Of the Term & Thing of Theology & Religion  1

2. Of the Practical Heads of it, Subjoined: Of Divine Revelation, which Scripture of the Old & New Testament, by the Divine Power of Inspiration, is Canonical, even the Sufficient Principle of Supernatural Theology which ought to be duly Adhered to  18

3. Of the Systematic Method that ought to be Used to Derive Supernatural Theology out of Sacred Scripture  66

The Principal Part

1. Of the Existing God  70

2. Of the Nature or Existence of God  74

3. Of the Triune God  83

4. Of the Decree & Predestination of God  103

5. Of the Adjunct of the Divine Decree, or that which Follows, of the Real & Nominal  130

6. Of Creation  137

7. Of the Angels  141

8. Of Adam & Eve, of the Creation of the First Men with the Image of God  153

9. Of the Providence of God  161

10. Of the Covenant of Works  168

11. Of the Fall of the First Parents & its Consequence, & of the Corruption of the Human Race  174

12. Of Grace  184

13. Of the Promulgation of the First Grace & of Undertaking before the Advent of Christ  189

14. Of Christ Taught [Matheia], or of the Doctrine of the Christ  193

15. Of the Covenant of Grace  217

16. Of the Church  247

17. Of the Dispensations of God in the Church  250

18. Of the Worship & Sacraments of the New Testament  264

19. Of the Ecclesiastical, Political, & Domestic State of Christians  269

20. Of the Church Triumphant & of the Last Things  275

Bernsau, Henricus – A Scientific Method of Dogmatic Theology, vols. 1, 2, 3 (Grace, Mediator & Office & States of), 4  (Franeker, 1761)  Table of contents for vol. 3

Bernsau (1717-1763)

Table of Contents

1. Of the Counsel of Grace & Wrath  1

2. Of the Necessity of the Deliverer & his Surety, & the Pact of Salvation  270

3. Of the Two Natures in Christ  434

4. Of the Heavenly Prophet  542

5. Of the Great, High Priest  636

6. Of the King of Kings  742

7. Of the State of Humiliation of the Mediator  773

8. Of the State of Exaltation of the Mediator  800

Stapfer, Johann

Institutes of Universal Polemical Theology, Ordered in a Scientific Arrangement, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5  (Zurich, 1756)  The table of contents to all the volumes is after the Preface in the first volume.

Stapfer (1708-1775) was a professor of theology at Bern.  He was influenced by the philosophical rationalism of Christian Wolff, though, by him “the orthodox reformed tradition was continued with little overt alteration of the doctrinal loci and their basic definitions.” – Richard Muller

Table Contents

Vol. 1

1. Of the True Rule of Study & of the System of Polemical Theology  1

2. Of the Cautions to be Observed in Polemical Theology  33

3. A Demonstration of the Truth of Theology is Exhibited  66

I. The Heads of it:  It is Agitated of the Divine Existence  67
II. Of the Attributes Dependent on the Divine Existence  73
III. Of the Attributes Dependent on the Divine Intellect  78
IV. Of the Will & Power of God  90
V. Of the Decrees of God in General  105
VI. Of the Wisdom, Goodness, Holiness, Justice, Omnipresence, & the Remaining Perfections of God  121
VII. Of Creation & Providence, & the Immortality of the Soul  176
VIII. Of the Dependence of Man on God as the Fundamental of Religion  208
IX. Of the First State of Man  213
X. Of Sin & the Consequence of It  228
XI. Of the Impotence of Man to Extricate Himself out of Infinite Evil & to Restore a Pristine State  242
XII. Of the Necessity of Revelation & the Criterion of it  258
XIII. Of Freedom, in which the Revelation of the Means of Human Deliverance is contained  282
XIV. Of the Religion of a Sinner in General  299
XV. OF the Person of the Deliverer & of his Properties  308
XVI. Of the Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity  310
XVII. Of the Counsel of the Most Holy Trinity about the Salvation of Man  322
XVIII. Of the Execution of the Decree of the Means of Salvation through Providing Christ  337
XIX. Of the Application of the Means of Deliverance  353
XX. Of the City of God  408
XXI. Of the Offices of Citizens & of the Public Worship  428
XXII. Of Rites, or of the Sacred Ceremonies that ought to be Adhered to in the Public Worship in General  440
XXIII. Of the Principal Rites of the Church, or of the Sacraments of Baptism & the Holy Supper  446
XXIV.  Of the Consummation of the Church  470
XXV. Of the Political Magistrate  491
XXVI. Of the Excellence of the Christian Religion  497

4. Of Fundamental Articles  513

5. Of Heresy & the way in which Heretics ought to be dealt with, even of the Tolerance of Schismatics  551

Vol. 2

6. Of Atheism
7. Of Deism
8. Of Epicureanism
9. Of Gentilism
10. Of Naturalism

Vol. 3

11. Of Judaism & Mohommedism
12. Of Socinianism
13. Of the Indifferentism of Religions, of Latitudinarianists, & of the Religion of Prudentists

Vol. 4

14. Of Papalism
15. Of Fanaticism
16. Of Pelagianism
17. Of the Remonstrants
18. Of Mennonites, or Anabaptists

Vol. 5

19. Of the Oriental Church
20. Of the Consensus & Dissent of Protestants, or of the Reformed & of the Church Adhering to the [Lutheran] Augsburg Confession

Appendix:  of the Heresies of the First Ages
Index of Things Contained in the Whole Work

Theology Analyzed, vol. 1  (Bern, 1761)  The table of contents is immediately after the title page

Table of Contents

1. Of Religion in General  Mic. 6:8  1
2. Of the Knowledge of the Existence of God from his Works, even the prime fundamental of all Religion  Rom. 1:19-20  9
3. Of the Immortality of the Soul, even the other Fundamental of All Religion  Eccl. 12:9  15
4. Of the Perfections of God in General  Mt. 5:48  22
5. Of the Intellect & Will of God  Jn. 4:24  28
6. Of the Omniscience of God  Heb.  4:13  34
7. Of the Wisdom & Power of God  Job 12:13  38
8. Of the Holiness of God  1 Pet. 1:16  43
9. Of the Righteousness of God  Ps. 11:7  48
10. Of the Veracity of God  Ps. 33:4  53
11. Of the Goodness & Mercy of God  Ps. 145:9  57
12. Of the Eternity & Immutability of God  Ps. 102:28  63
13. Of the All-Sufficiency of God  Ps. 68:21  67
14. Of the Offices of Natural Religion towards God  Dt. 10:12  72
15. Of the Offices of Natural Religion towards Ourselves  Phil. 4:8  78
16. Of the Offices of Natural Religion towards Others  Rom. 13:8  83
17. Of the Necessity of Revelation  1 Cor. 1:21  88
18. Of the Divine Origin of Sacred Scripture  2 Tim. 3:16-17  93
19. Of the Perfection of Sacred Scripture  2 Tim. 3:16  101
20. Of the Offices towards Sacred Scripture  James 1:22  105
21. Of the Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity  1 Jn. 5:7  112
22. Of the Decree of God in General  Eph. 1:11  118
23. Of the Particular Decree of God, or of Election  Eph. 1:4  124
24. Of Creation in General  Rev. 4:11  131
25. Of the Creation of Heaven & Earth  Ps. 102:26  138
26. Of the Good Angels  Ps. 103:20  145
27. Of the Bad Angels  Jude 6  153
28. Of the Creation of Man  Gen. 2:7  162
29. Of the Providence of God in General  Rom. 11:36  170
30. Of the Attributes of Providence  Isa. 55:8-9  178
31. Of the Providence of God about Sin & the Ungodly  Job 34:21-22  185
32. Of the Providence of God about Good & the Godly  Ps. 33:18  191
33. Of the Internal State of Primeval Men, or of the Divine Image  Gen. 1:27  199
34. Of the External State of the First Parents, or of the State of Innocency  Gen. 2:8  209
35. Of the Offices of the First Parents, or of the Covenant of Works  Gen. 2:16-17  217
36. Of the Fall of the First Parents  Gen. 3:1-6  227
37. Of the Consequence of the Fall of the First Parents in their Posterity, or of Original Sin & of its Cause & Effect  Rom. 5:12  234
38. Of the Consequents of Original Sin, or of Actual Sins  Rom. 3:12  242
39. Of the Dominion, Stain & Guilt of Sins  Prov. 8:36  252
40. Of the Necessity of Punishments & of the Temporal Punishments of Sins  Rom. 2:9  258
41. Of Eternal Punishments, & of their Necessity & Truth  2 Thess. 1:9  266
42. Of the Misery of Man & of his Impotence to Free Himself out of this Misery  Rom. 7:24  272
43. Of the Cause, Certainty & Means of Redemption  Isa. 45:17  278
44. Of the Necessity of a Divine Redeemer  Isa. 48:11  286
45. Of the Nature & Necessity of a Satisfaction provided by the Divine Redeemer for us  Heb. 2:10  292
46. Of the Attributes or Requisites of the Redeemer of Men Heb. 7:26  300
47. Of the Person of the Redeemer of Men, Jesus Christ, & his Names  1 Tim. 2:5  307
48. Of the Threefold Mediatorial Office of Christ  1 Cor. 1:30  314
49. Of the Two States of Christ in General  Heb. 2:7  320
50. Of the Prophetic of Office of Christ  Lk. 24:19  328
51. Of the Priestly Office of Christ, or of the Redeemer  Heb. 9:11  335
52. Of the Kingly Office of Christ  Lk. 1:33  343
53. Of the Incarnation of Christ  Mt. 1:23  353
54. Of the Life which Christ in this world led  1 Pet. 2:21-22  361
55. Of the Internal Sufferings which Christ sustained in his soul for us  Heb. 5:7  369
56. Of the External Sufferings which He sustained in his Body for us  Isa. 53:5  377
57. Of the Death & Burial of Christ  1 Cor. 15:3-4  385
58. Of the Resurrection of Christ  2 Tim. 2:8  394
59. Of the Ascension of Christ in Heaven  Acts 1:9  405
60. Of the Session of Christ to the Right Hand of the Father  Heb. 8:1  411

A Theological Dissertation on Naturalism  (Bern, 1742)  150 pp.

De Moor, Bernard – A Continuous Commentary on John Marck’s Compendium of Didactic and Elenctic Christian Theology, vol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  (Leiden, 1761-71)  The first three volumes are in English: Buy

De Moor (1709-1780) has a number of disputations available at PRDL.  As portions of De Moor’s systematic are translated into English, excerpts are being put up at the blog.  Here is a review of the first volume by Dr. Ryan McGraw.

De Moor “maintained the fundamental line of confessional orthodoxy without drawing heavily on any of the newer philosophies…  [and he] maintained a fairly centrist Reformed position… Vitringa and De Moor served as codifiers and bibliographers of the earlier tradition, the former from a federalist, the latter from a nonfederalist perspective.  Indeed, De Moor’s efforts did for later Reformed orthodoxy what the massive system of Quenstedt did for Lutheranism in the concluding years of the seventeenth century: the work was so exhaustive and so complete in detail and bibliography that it virtually ended the development of Reformed doctrine in the form of orthodox system.” – Richard Muller

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Table of Contents

vol. 1

1. Of the Term & Definition of ‘Theology’  5
2. Of the Principle of Theology, or of Sacred Scripture  114
3. Of Religion  447
4. Of God, with respect to his Names, Essence & Attributes  498
5. Of the Trinity of Persons  695
6. Of the Divine Decrees  897

A Theological Disputation on Mk. 15:25 & Jn. 19:14  943
A Theological Disputation on Eph. 5:14  957
A Theological Disputation on: Vindictive Justice Essential to God  996

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Junius, Franciscus

The Theological Works, vol. 1, 2  (Heidelberg, 1607; 1608) The Latin table of contents is at the beginning of each volume.  Here is the Latin table of contents for the 2nd volume.

Junius (1545-1602)

Select Smaller Theological Works  ed. Abraham Kuyper (Amsterdam, 1882)  The Latin table of contents is at the end of the volume.

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Maccovius, Johannes

A Volume of Theological Theses by Giving Disputations on Common Places  (Franeker, 1639) The Table of Contents is at the beginning.

Maccovius (1588-1644)

Theological Common Places  (Franeker, 1650; 1658) The table of Contents is at the end

Distinctions and Rules of Theology and Philosophy  (Amsterdam, 1653)

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Scharp, John

A Course of Theology, in which all the dogmas and controversies of faith agitated in this generation between us and Papists are handled one by one and the arguments of Bellarmine are responded to, vol. 1, 2 (Geneva, 1620)  The table of contents is at the end of volume two.

Sharp (1572-1648) was also influential in France.  Even though this work is against the Papists, Scharp handles most of the topics of theology in systematic order.

A Tract on the Justification of Man before God  (Geneva, 1609)

Boyd, Robert – Commentary on the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians  (London, 1652)  The end of the volume has indices of words and phrases, and of chief common places and theological questions.

Boyd (1578-1627).  “His posthumously published Latin commentary on Ephesians… is an enduring monument to his learning.  The work, however, is far more than a commentary and includes discussions of virtually every important locus of a systematic theology… his intention in this was to derive the chief heads of Christian doctrine from Scripture, Ephesians being deliberately chosen for the purpose…” – James Kirk (Dict. of Scot. CH&T)

Rutherford, Samuel 

An Examination of Arminianism  (Utrecht, 1668)  A much fuller table of contents in Latin than what is below in English is at the end of the volume, along with a subject and Scripture index.

Rutherford (1600-1661)

Table of Contents

1 – Of the Scriptures and Fundamental Articles   1
2 – Of God   138
.           Of the Knowledge of God   138
.           Of the Essence of God   141
.           Of the Trinity   147
.           Of God’s Knowledge  162
.           Of the Will of God and its Execution   169
3 – Of Election   238
4 – Of Reprobation   276
5 – Of the State of the First Man   297
6 – Of Original Sin   310
7 – Of the State of Fallen Man   325
8 – Of the State of Grace   352
9 – Of Universal Redemption   372
10 – Of the Covenant of Grace   427
11 – Of the Manner of Conversion   453
12 – Of the Justification of the Sinner   498
13 – Of the Perseverance of the Saints   553
14 – Of the Assurance of Salvation   625
15 – Of the Church and its Notes   642
16 – Of Ministers of the Word   681
17 – Of Synods   692
18 – Of the Sacraments and Ecclesiastical Discipline   716
19 – Of the Magistrate   728
20 – Of the Soul and the Bodily Resurrection   753

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Extended Table of Contents

Chapter 1

On the Scriptures and Fundamental Articles

 

* 1. Whether Scripture is the judge of controversies?  We affirm.  Or, whether God in his Word has not left us any conscience-binding rule, but only one that guidingly judges?  We deny against the Arminians, or Remonstrants.  1

2. Whether those fundamental articles which are deduced by consequence from the most common principles are believed by true faith?  Explained and distinguished.  20

3. What sort of consequence is entailed by evidence so that it is an article of faith?  Explained.  29

4. Whether the number of fundamental doctrines can be determined by us?  We deny.  32

5.  For which of the fundamentals is understanding and faith required?  Explained.  34

6.  What is overcomeable versus absolute ignorance of the fundamentals?  Explained. 38

7.  In what way is understanding of the fundamentals necessary for salvation?  Explained. 42

8.  Why everything contained in the Word of God ought to be believed, on pain of damnation, while nevertheless only the fundamentals are  necessary to be believed as a necessary means? Explained.  43

9. How far are they may be tolerated who err in the fundamentals?  Explained.  44

10. How far is it necessary for us to separate from a church erring in fundamentals?  Explained.  46

11. Whether the Roman church is a true church? We answer with a distinction. 46, 64

12. Whether the light of the Holy Spirit is required for the Scriptures to be savingly understood?  We affirm against the Arminians.  83

13. Whether it follows from this necessity that the Scriptures are obscure in themselves, as the Papists assert?  We deny against the same.  87

14. Whether solid faith in the Scriptures can consist with the Arminian freedom of preaching?  We deny against the Arminians.  89

15. Whether anyone in any religion can be saved?  We deny against the Remonstrants. 94

16. Whether the Arminian freedom of preaching is Libertinism?  We affirm against the same.  94

* 17. Whether, not only all the traditions of the Papists, but even new offices, such as the domineering bishop, etc, human ceremonies, and whatsoever is of positive observance in divine worship contrived by the Antichrist or the bishops and prelates, conflicts with the completeness and perfection of the Scriptures?  We affirm against the Arminians.  97

18. Whether the word of God obliges to the assent of its true sense, or whether so greatly and in truth the conscience obliges to the sense which it judges true?  We affirm the former; we deny the latter against the Remonstrants.  128

 

Chapter 2

On God

Heading 1:  On the Knowledge [Cognitione] of God

1. Whether or not a living and right knowledge of God is commanded?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  138

Heading 2:  On God’s Essence

2. Whether God, by his nature, is most simple?  We affirm against the Remonstrants. 141

3. Whether God, according to his essence, is omnipresent?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  143

Heading 3:  On the Trinity

4. Whether the essence in God is so much one, or three?  We affirm the former. We deny the latter against Vorstius.                                                                                                                      147

* 5.  Whether the Son is autotheos [of Himself God]?  We affirm against the Arminians and Vorstius.  149

6. Whether, according to the Arminians, Christ is true God, of one substance with the Father?  We deny against the same.  150

* 7. Whether Christ, as a man, is worshipped?  We deny against the Arminians.  155

8. Whether the communication of deity in Christ is twofold?  We deny against the Arminians.  156

* 9. Whether Christ, as Mediator, is to be worshipped?  We respond with a distinction.  158

10. Whether the Holy Spirit is true God?  We affirm against the wavering Remonstrants.  160

Heading 4:  On God’s Knowledge [Scientia]

11. Whether there is a middle knowledge in God.  We deny against the Jesuits and Arminians.  162

12. Whether God foreknows future contingencies with certainty.  We affirm against the doubting Remonstrants.  166

Heading 5:  On God’s Will and its Execution

13. Whether whatsoever is in God, so far as it is, such as decrees, willings and actions, be God?  We affirm against the Remonstrants. 169

14. Whether in God there is an antecedent and consequent will, according to the Arminian sense?  We deny against the Arminians. 170

15. Whether to take pity and do good is essential to God, and even necessary, as much as for the sun to give light?   We deny against Jackson and the Anabaptists. 174

16. Whether God punishes men unwillingly?  We deny against the Remonstrants. 175

16. [sic] Whether God is immutable?  We affirm against the Arminians.  175

17. Whether there is a primary intention in God which sometimes fails, with a secondary intention following it?  We deny against the Arminians.  179

* 18. Whether a distinction between the will of God’s good pleasure [beneplaciti] and his revealed [signi] will is to be admitted?  We affirm with a distinction.  181

* Whether in the calling of all in the visible Church is the intention of God that all and every person obey and be saved.  The Remonstrants affirm; we negate.  183

* Whether because God amiably invites and by supplications solicits, entreats and calls upon reprobates, and as He mourns over them, is grieved by them and laments on account of the disobedient, whether He, therefore, intends the obedience of them?  The Remonstrants affirm; we negate.  183

* 19. Whether a distinction of will between effecting and permitting is commendable?  We affirm with a distinction against the Arminians.  184

20. Whether God indeed absolutely decreed all contingencies from all eternity?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  185

21. Whether the conditional decree of the Arminians suffices to save God’s providence of future contingencies?  We deny against them.  191

22. Whether fortune reigns according to the Arminians?  We affirm against them.  193

23. Whether the dominion of his providence in free acts, according to the view of the Jesuits and Arminians, consists with God?  We deny against them.  196

24. Whether such a dominion consists with God as that He be able to effect things so that a free act be rather than not be, according to the Scriptures?  We affirm against the Remonstrants and Jesuits.  197

25. Whether God’s dominion requires that all free acts of creatures be principally and determinately from Himself?  We affirm against the Remonstrants and Jesuits.  200

* 26. Whether God wills sin to exist, He permitting it?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  203

27. Whether God wills sin as it is a penalty for sinning?  We affirm against the Remonstrants and Jesuits.   210

28. Whether sin is a penalty for sin?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  211

29. Whether God is a bare permitter, and an accidental cause of hardening?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  213

30. Whether there are other evil acts of the hardened which do not increase their damnation?   We deny against the Remonstrants.  214

* 31. Whether God impels persons to sins which He forbids?  We affirm with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  216

32. Whether God absolutely foreordained the sufferings in the death of Christ, but not really the unjust actions?  We deny against the Remonstrants. 216

33. Whether God forbids acts [considered materially in themselves], or rather the malice of an act, in his law?  We deny the former; we affirm the latter against the Remonstrants.  218

* 34. Whether the act and the lawlessness are distinguishable in all sins?  We affirm against the Arminians.  219

* 35. Whether sin is opposed to God in its essence?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  220

36. Whether God concurs with material acts of sin by a universal, indifferent, and determinate concurrence through secondary causes?  We deny against the Jesuits and Remonstrants. 221

* Whether because God would predetermine the will to material acts of sin, therefore He is the author of sin?  224

37. Whether an obligation as first cause excuses God so that an evil action be not imputed to Him, even though He gives a general concurrence to it? We deny against the Jesuits and Arminians.  224

38. Whether God’s good pleasure is the first cause of all moral goodness in creatures?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  226

39. Whether God’s predetermination is the fate of the Stoics?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  227

* 40. Whether each wicked action, which is from sinning instruments, is done by God as by the principal agent?  We affirm with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  230

41. Whether our people are Libertines in this doctrine?  We deny against the Remonstrants. 231

* 42. Whether that distinction is frivolous by which it is taught that God hates sin, and yet wills its existence?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  233

43. Whether all acts of good and evil are particularized and determined by God even as far as the numerical singleness and unity of acts [generally]?  We affirm against the Jesuits and Arminians.  234

44. Whether [God’s] permission is a bare, non-efficient one, and a dereliction of will, the nature of it being indifferent?  We deny against the Jesuits and Arminians.  235

Whether the permission of sin works only by persuasion?  So says Arminius; we deny.  236

* 45. Whether sin necessarily follows upon God’s giving permission by a logical necessity?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  236

 

Chapter 3

On Election

1. Whether election to salvation is two-fold; on the one hand indefinite and general, and on the other hand definite and special?  We deny against the Arminians.  238

2. Whether election is of certain singular, definite persons?  We affirm against the Arminians.  239

3. Whether election is revocable and incomplete for those who for a time believe, and complete and irrevocable for those whom God foreknew to be believing finally?  We deny against the Arminians.  241

4. Whether the election of this one rather than that one to glory is only from the absolute good pleasure [of God]?  Explained and affirmed against the Arminians.  245

5. Whether faith is a consequence of election?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  252

6. Whether election to glory is done from all eternity?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  257

7. What that good pleasure of God consists in which Paul speaks of in Rom. 9?  Explained and proven against the Arminians.  258

8. Whether each and every mortal is either elect or reprobate?  We affirm against the Arminians.  260

9. Whether Christ is the meritorious cause of election?  We deny against the Arminians. 264

10. Whether, because God absolutely destined to eternal glory, Christ cannot therefore merit it?  We deny against the Arminians.  268

11. Whether the promise of some conditional good can be subordinated by an immutable decree in such a way that that good which is promised is destined absolutely?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  269

* 12. Whether or not faith may at once be a required condition in a formal way and the thing which is promised and indeclinably brought about in us by God?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  270

* 13. Whether we invert the natural order because we state that the man who is to be created is the object of predestination?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  271

14. Whether carefulness, fear, and caution in the use of means are in disagreement with absolute election to glory?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  272

15. Whether the number of elect is precisely determined?  We affirm against the Arminians.  274

 

Chapter 4

On Reprobation

1. Whether reprobation is an eternal act in God?  We affirm against the Remonstrants. 276

2. Whether God reprobated men absolutely from his choice alone?  Whether sin is truly the meritorious cause of reprobation? We affirm the former; we deny the latter against the Remonstrants.  277

* 3. Whether the distinction between negative and privative non-election, or preterition, versus reprobation, is senseless?  We deny against the Arminians.  278

* 4. Whether reprobation is indeed the lot of those who are outside of the church?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  279

* 5. Whether absolute reprobation is the prime cause of the enduring destruction of the better portion of mankind?  We deny against the Remonstrants.                                                                      280

6. Whether God creates and stores up some men for destruction?  We distinguish against the Remonstrants.  280

7. Whether on this account creation forbears to be good, because reprobates are created unto this end, that they be vessels of wrath for the manifestation of the glory of punitive justice?  We deny against the Arminians.  281

8. Whether God stores up men, especially the truly reprobate, to sin?  We distinguish against the Remonstrants.  282

9.  Whether the absolute will of God is the cause of all things?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  283

10. Whether God needs the slavery of sin, according to us?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  284

11. Whether God by the covenant of grace has abdicated his absolute dominion in the disposing of rational creatures exactly as He wills?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  285

* 12. Whether God willed absolutely that men would do no more good than what they do?  We affirm with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  285

13. Whether God does not absolutely will more to be converted and saved than are converted and saved?  We affirm against the Remonstrants. 286

14. Whether the commands, promises, and threatenings of the gospel conflict with absolute reprobation?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  287, 291, 294

15. Whether God absolutely, from eternity past, decreed the declaration of punitive justice?  We affirm against the Arminians.  290

16. Whether absolute reprobation conflicts with the ministry of the Word?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  291

* 17. Whether it conflicts with the blessedness of God for Him to absolutely put forth an end which cannot be reached without sin, which thing is ungracious of Him?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  292

18. reprobates can be argued [to be so] from [their] ingratitude toward the mercy and merits of Christ?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  292

* 19. Whether it would have been better for the reprobate to never have heard the gospel?  We deny with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  295

20. Whether the doctrine of absolute reprobation is an abyss of despair?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  295

 

Chapter 5

On the Estate of the First Man

1. Whether original righteousness was natural to unfallen man, or supernatural?  We affirm the former; we deny the latter against the Remonstrants.  297

* 2. Whether God is made the author of the first sin if man sinned for this reason, because God, without regard to his fault, denied him grace necessary to escape the first sin?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  300

3. Whether the first sin freed Adam from any covenant?  We deny against the Arminians.  301

* 4. Whether sinful concupiscence is a negative entity or positive quality?  We distinguish.  305

5. Whether in unfallen Adam there was the power of believing in Christ?  We affirm with a distinction against the Arminians.                         305

6. Whether the image of God in Adam was original righteousness and habitual holiness, or rather a bare free will of obeying God?  We affirm the former; we deny the latter against the Remonstrants.  307

7. Whether Adam was created mortal?  We distinguish.  308

 

Chapter 6

On Original Sin

1. Whether there is original sin in every man?  We affirm against the Arminians and Socinians.  310

* 2.  Whether, because original sin is not committed by personal volition, it is therefore not sin, properly so-called?  We deny against the Arminians.  313 & 323

3. Whether such a covenant can be proven, by which Adam’s sin is imputed to all his posterity?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  314

4. Whether concupiscence is sin, particularly after baptism and regeneration?  We affirm against the Remonstrants and Papists.  314 & 321

5. Whether concupiscence is formally prohibited by the law of God?  We affirm against the Remonstrants and Papists.  316

* 6. Whether concupiscence is sin when one does not give consent of the will?  We affirm against the Pelagians.  318

7. Whether the wrestling between the flesh and the Spirit in the reborn is simply natural, and on the part of the resisting flesh, so minimally culpable?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  319

8. Whether this wrestling is always in the reborn?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  319

9. Whether actual sins have arisen, not from original sin, but from an acquired habit of evil acting, and from pure free will?  We deny against the Remonstrants and Socinians.  322

 

Chapter 7

On the State of Fallen Man

1. Whether the knowledge of God is natural to man after the fall?  We deny against the Arminians and Socinians.                                                 325

2. Whether the mind is already blind in supernatural matters, so that illumination is needed?  We affirm against the Remonstrants and Socinians.  327

3. Whether the will is powerless in supernatural acts?  We affirm against the Remonstrants. 331

4. Whether there is a freedom of the will to nil and will good, being indicated from the intellect?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  331

5. Whether the Arminians say sincerely that the will is corrupt?  We deny against them. 333

6. Whether God, by any law founded in the merits of Christ, confers a prevenient [antecedent] grace for doing what is in it?  We deny against the Papists.  336

7. Whether God gives grace of conversion to man because he is better disposed, or from any mode of equity and congruency?  We deny with a distinction against the Papists and Remonstrants.  337

* 8. Whether the Adversaries rightly infer this, that according to us, it is noxious for the unconverted to hear the Word and to use external means?  We deny.  343

* 9. Whether legal contrition can be called preparation for conversion?  We distinguish.  344

10. Whether the unregenerate can furnish truly good works?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  344

11. Whether the virtues of the gentiles are true virtues?  We deny against the Remonstrants. 346

12. Whether the unregenerate person is constrained by a need to sin?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  347

13. Whether there is sin which cannot be avoided by the one sinning?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  348

14. Where the afflictions of the faithful are truly punishments?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  349

 

Chapter 8

On the State of Grace

1. Whether the Arminians contend rightly for the dignity of the merit of Christ and the excellency of divine grace? We deny against the same.  352

2. Whether Arminianism is Pelagianism and Semi-pelagianism? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  357

3. Whether sufficient grace is given, by which all can be saved if they will? We deny against the Remonstrants.  362, 369

* 4. Whether a distinction of grace between sufficient and efficacious is to be admitted?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  368

5. Whether the power to believe is conferred upon all? We deny against the Remonstrants.   370

6. Whether the grace of God efficaciously determines the will? We affirm against the Remonstrants and Jesuits.  371

 

Chapter 9

On Universal Redemption

1. Whether Christ died for each and every person? We deny against the Remonstrants.  372

2. Whether Christ procured reconciliation for each and every person by his death, and that truly, not by that act conferring it? We deny against the Remonstrants.  387, 398

3. Whether those may perish for whom Christ has died? We deny against the Remonstrants.  388

4. Whether these three things are effects of the death of Christ: 1. That God does not will anyone to perish because of the sin of Adam. 2. That he casts off none from himself because of sins preceding the calling of the gospel.  3. That none are afflicted with an eternal punishment or cast off from the communion of a heavenly life on account of sins of infirmity.  We deny against the Remonstrants.  394

5. Whether the gospel can be preached in every place and time? We deny against the Remonstrants.  398

* 6. Whether all are directly obligated in the same way and by the same principle [jure] to believe in Christ announced by the gospel?  We deny with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  399

7. Whether unbelievers are objects of eternal punishment because, although they can, they do not believe? We deny against the Remonstrants.  400

8. Whether the Remonstrants say rightly and by consequence from their principles that Christ did not die only for the finally impenitent? We deny.  401

9. Whether, by the death of Christ, the merciful affection in God, by which He wills all to be saved, is changed into an absolute purpose to give eternal life to those who believe? We deny against the Remonstrants.  405

10. Whether Christ thus endured the lot of those for whom He died in order that God would consider the punishments owed to them as dead? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  406

11. Whether Christ intercedes generally for all, but specially and truly only for those who believe? We deny against the Remonstrants.  411

12. Whether Christ merited faith and regeneration for none? We deny against the Remonstrants.  413

13. Whether Christ embraced those He died for with the greatest love? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  415

14. Whether reconciliation is by the active efficiency of God’s will to save in place of a will to damn? We deny against the Remonstrants.  417

15. Whether the foundation of Christian certainty is in this, that Christ died for all, and of desperation rather, that He died only for those elected absolutely? We deny against the Remonstrants.  418

* 16. Whether the reprobate are made reconcilable to God by the death of Christ?  We deny against the Remonstrants. [The Arminians simply affirm it.  We distinguish…]  421

* 17. Whether each and every truly reprobate person must believe Christ to have died for them?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  422

* 18. Whether it may be required by [divine] law from reprobates that they believe in Christ?  We affirm against [what] the Remonstrants [say of our position].  424

19. Whether none can rest in Christ in faith, except that he first know that He was given by God to him as a savior? We deny against the Remonstrants.  425

 

Chapter 10

On the Covenant of Grace

1. Whether God, of his free good pleasure alone, entered into a Covenant of Grace with man? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  427

2. Whether the fathers under the Old Testament had no promises beyond the corporal? We deny against the Remonstrants.  430

3. Whether the covenant of grace is made with all, even with them that have heard nothing of Christ? We deny against the Remonstrants.  432

4. Whether grace which determines the will for good is promised in the New Covenant? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  435

* 5. Whether the Covenant of Grace is eternal?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  438

6. Whether the promises of the New Covenant, proceeding from the first intention and prior will of God, are to all equally? We deny against the Remonstrants.  440

7. Whether the gospel is preached according to inherent merits or demerits, and not out of the mere grace and good pleasure of God? We deny against the Remonstrants.  446

* 8. Whether the Covenant of Works entered into with Adam was rigid and of such a sort that God, according to its rigor, could not carry it out on his posterity?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  449

* 9. Whether no one is under the law anymore, insofar as it is a law, and under the covenant entered into with Adam, as such?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  451

 

Chapter 11

On the Manner of Conversion

1. Whether grace irresistibly brings about conversion? We affirm against the Remonstrants and Jesuits.  453

2. Whether every act of God in conversion is simply moral, not real and physical? We deny against the Remonstrants.  473

3. Whether God indeed internally calls all whom He externally calls, so that there is therefore a strength to obey in them if they so will? We deny against the Remonstrants.  476

4. Whether absolutely no grace, not even common grace, accompanies the word of the gospel? We respond with a distinction.  480

5. Whether the essence of conversion lies in a sole, free act of assenting to and believing the Word, or rather in the giving of a new heart? We deny the former; we affirm the latter against the Remonstrants.  481

6. Whether only the power of believing is from God and the free act of believing from man, and yet the particular work of conversion is from God? We deny against the Remonstrants.  485

* 7. Whether, because God converts with irresistible force, the will is therefore coerced and freedom overturned?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  486

* Whether because God infallibly determines the will to one thing, He overturns liberty?   486

8. Whether only the elect are internally called? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  487

9. Whether the efficacy of grace and of conversion (rather than non-conversion) depends upon actual, determining grace? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  488

10. Whether non-conversion should be attributed to God denying efficacious grace, rather than to man refusing to believe? We deny against the Remonstrants.  491

11. Whether it is from free will that supernatural acts of believing and repentance be stronger or weaker, not from the nature of grace? We deny against the Remonstrants.  493

12. Whether God joins with active grace in supernatural works for this reason, because the created will joins in? We deny against the Remonstrants.  493

13. Whether the irresistibility of grace conflicts with precepts, promises, and threatenings? We deny against the Remonstrants.  495

14. Whether the efficacy of grace depends upon a congruent calling? We deny against the Jesuits and Remonstrants.  497

 

Chapter 12

On the Justification of Sinners

1. Whether we are justified by faith alone, not by our works? We affirm against the Jesuits and Remonstrants.  498

2. Whether God justly imputes the righteousness of Christ to us? We affirm against the Remonstrants, Papists, and Socinians.  506

* 3. Whether the act of believing is imputed to the believer properly, so that it is therefore his righteousness formally before God?  We deny against the Remonstrants and Jesuits.  510

4. Whether, by the grace of God which is granted to the faithful in this life, the law can be fulfilled perfectly? We deny against the Remonstrants, Papists, and Socinians.  511

5. Whether a distinction should be made between mortal and venial sin? We respond with a distinction.  516

6. Whether there is any sin under the New Covenant which is by its nature venial? We deny against the Remonstants and Papists.  517

7. Whether the most excellent works of the regenerate are polluted with sin? We affirm against the Remonstrants and Papists.  520

8. Whether the wrestling between the Spirit and the flesh in the regenerate is perpetual and culpable? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  524

9. Whether the Apostle speaks of the regenerate man in Rom. 7? We affirm against the Remonstrants and Papists.  527

10. Whether good works are necessary as causes of justification, and therefore also of salvation? We deny against the Remonstrants and Papists.  530

11. Whether justification is a singular, complete, enduring, and unrepeatable act? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  535

12. Whether faith only justifies as an instrument? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  540

13. Whether faith is a token of special mercy? We affirm against the Remonstrants. 542

14. Whether the Word is the one and only instrument, either preparatory or consummatory, of the internal generation of faith, so that therefore no immediate action of the Spirit is required? We deny against the Remonstrants.  547

 

Chapter 13

On the Perseverance of the Saints

1. Whether (1) adults (2) who are truly regenerate, (3) not for reason of their infirmity, and (4) notwithstanding the intercession of Christ, the principle of a lively faith, the immutable covenant of God, election, and the care and power of God, can so fall away that (i) they part with all right unto the kingdom of God that they once had in Christ, (ii) fall away from the favor and grace of a gratuitous election, and (iii) totally and finally fall away? We deny against the Papists, Pseudo-Lutherans, Socinians, and Remonstrants.  553

2. Whether temporary faith has the essence of saving faith? We deny against the Remonstrants.  563

* 3. Whether it is hypocritical that those possessing temporary faith cannot be said to fall away? We deny with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  568

4. Whether, because exhortations by their nature serve to engender fear, the purpose of the promise, by which God absolutely promises perseverance, is therefore extinguished? We deny against the Remonstrants.  579

5. Whether they cannot be moved to obedience by the promise of eternal life who are certainly comprehended in it? We deny against the Remonstrants.  591

6. Whether God promises perseverance absolutely? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  594

7. Whether Christ elected none to perseverance? We deny against the Remonstrants.  596

8. Whether Christ acquired perseverance for the elect by the merit of his death? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  598

9. Whether the promise of salvation applies immediately only to him who finally perseveres and has complete faith, i.e. as many as endure to the end? We deny against the Remonstrants.  599

10. Whether he, being under divine judgment, perseveres in faith who (1) does not sin against the clear and plain dictates of either natural reason or supernatural revelation, and (2) seeks to correct and emend their infirmities, this moderation furthering diligence? We deny against the Remonstrants.  604

11. Whether the sins of the regenerate are all sins of infirmity according to us? We deny with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  606

12. Whether the regenerate can sin with deliberate purpose, with all the might of the will, and with full consent, being given over to malice? We deny against the Remonstrants.  607

13. Whether the strivings of the Spirit against the flesh diminish the sin of the regenerate? We affirm with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  610

14. Whether we teach that true believers not only do not cast off the Holy Spirit and faith by the most severe sins, but that the abiding principle of faith in these persons remains safe under those sins, it being so pleasing to God that, due to it, God wills to grant eternal life? We deny against the Remonstrants.  617

15. Whether there is not any intrinsic and vital principle from which the duration of faith proceeds by the necessity of the consequent, nor any extrinsic principle, by the force of some decree by which it is necessary that the elect persevere? We deny against the Remonstrants.  620

16. Whether an apostate can, through knowledge [of the gospel], which he recognizes to be true, which he had in a former time believed, even if that knowledge is without all assent, resurge in life anew, so much so that it be not a work of total regeneration? We deny against the Remonstrants.  622

17. Whether God first deserts men who desert Him? We deny with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  623

18. Whether the truly regenerate, being excommunicated, are excluded from the kingdom of heaven? We deny against the Remonstrants.  624

 

Chapter 14

On the Certainty of Salvation

1. Whether any can be certain that he himself is truly justified, in the grace of God, and will continue to be saved? We affirm against the Papists and Remonstrants.  625, 630

2. Whether the certainty which Arminians attribute to believers can consist with the Scriptures, or with faith and hope? We deny against the same.  635

* 3. Whether the Arminians rightly deny there to be any certainty of our salvation?  We deny against the same.  638

* 4. Whether or not a greater certainty is required by us than that which the nature of a free act itself bears?  We affirm against the Remonstrants.  640

 

Chapter 15

On the Church and its Marks

1. Whether the Remonstrants rightly define the visible Church as the congregation of believers who profess saving doctrine, and of those who will do so, though they do not actually believe? We deny against the same.  643

2. Whether there is a church in the New Testament that is destitute of all elders to which [our] Lord and Savior commits the power of the keys? We deny with a distinction against the Remonstrants and Separatists.  644

3. Whether the Remonstrants rightly teach that to be the true Church which agrees in the faith and profession of necessary truth? We deny according to their own principles.                       644

4. Whether it is possible that there be no Church of Christ on the earth? We deny against the Remonstrants.  665

* 5. Whether the doctrine of the marks of the Church is useless and harmful?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  670

6. Whether there are any other marks of the Church than the profession of saving faith and the external observance of Christ’s commands? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  671

7. Whether the preaching of true doctrine is incorrectly stated by us to be a mark of the Church? We deny and explain against the Remonstrants.  672

 

Chapter 16

On the Ministers of the Word

* 1. Whether all the divine things of the apostles were to be proven to be inspired by the rule of the Word?  We deny with a distinction against the Remonstrants.                                         681

2. Whether the sending of ministers by the calling and ordination of the Church is still necessary by divine institution? We affirm against the Remonstrants.  684

3. Whether the ministry of the gospel and the preaching of the Word are precisely necessary for salvation? We affirm with an explanation against the Remonstrants.  686

4. Whether it is well spoken that the distinction in presbyters between teaching and ruling [presbyters] is an innovation? We deny against the Remonstrants.  689

 

Chapter 17

On Synods

1. Respecting synods, how much is to be attributed to the authority of them? Explained and proven against the Papists, Remonstrants, and Separatists.  692

2. Whether synods are neither useful, nor the ideal way for controversies to be decided? We deny against the Remonstrants and Socinians.  710

* 3. Whether they must be wholly indifferent and not restrained to any party who have the right of voting in a synod?  We deny against the Remonstrants.  714

 

Chapter 18

On the Sacraments and Ecclesiastical Discipline

1. Whether sacraments are signs, not [only] by way of representing and shadowing forth the thing signified to us, but also in a certain way by exhibiting and sealing? We affirm against the Remonstrants and Socinians.  716

2. Whether sacraments may be administered by any lay-person whatsoever? We deny against the Remonstrants and Socinians.  721

3. Whether the Remonstrants rightly teach that paedobaptism is to be used by them insofar as it is an ancient rite, yet it has authority neither from a precept of Christ nor as an apostolic institution? We deny against the same.  722

4. Whether baptism is only a temporary rite and not to last till the end of the world from Christ’s institution? We deny against the Remonstrants and Socinians.  723

* 5. Whether baptism is only a solemn rite by which we are distinguished from others and brought into divine worship, and not rather by which grace is really conferred?  We deny against the Remonstrants and Socinians.  724

* 6. Whether, in the Lord’s Supper, the death of Christ is only proclaimed and commemorated, and no spiritual gifts are actually sealed?  We deny against the Remonstrants and Socinians.  725

7. Whether the Remonstrants rightly deny that the Church wields any power whatsoever in the act of discipline, not only not over the flesh (such as the magistrate wields), but neither that which is internal and ecclesiastical, by which the Church binds the conscience to the thing before God and excludes one from the kingdom of heaven on account of guilt? We deny against the same.  726

 

Chapter 19

On the Magistrate

1. Whether it is lawful for the magistrate to afflict the dissolute and murderers with capital punishment? We affirm against the Remonstrants and Socinians.                                             728

* 2. Whether it is for the magistrate to punish heretics?  Whether it is agreeable to the laws of our most merciful Savior Jesus Christ that the magistrate tolerate Jews, Turks, Papists, etc, and all heretics in the republic who err with a purely mental error?  We affirm the former.  We deny the latter with a distinction against the Remonstrants.  732

3. Whether none errs in doing works, nor persuades himself to err while he is stirred up on account of his eternal salvation? We deny against the Remonstrants.  737

4. Whether the power of the magistrate is supreme in the external rule of the Church, is in kind higher than Church-power and is immediately subject to God alone? We deny against the Remonstrants.  739

 

Chapter 20

On the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body

* 1. Whether souls are immortal?  We affirm against the doubting Remonstrants and Socinians.  753

2. Whether the same number of bodies are to resurrect as are dissolved into dust? We affirm against the Remonstrants and Socinians.  753

It is asked whether the hellish tortures of the damned are eternal, or whether at last in the end it will be that the impious at length will be wholly destroyed and will be reduced to nothing?  The Remonstrants waver.  We deny the latter.  758

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A Scholastic Disputation on Divine Providence   (Edinburgh, 1649)  Table of Contents

Apologetic Exercises for Divine Grace  (Amsterdam, 1636; 1651)   The Latin table of contents is at the end of the volume.  Note that the headings of Rutherford’s table of contents are sometimes differently worded than the heading on the specific page itself.

Table of Contents

Exercise 1 – Of the Divine Decrees and the Agreeable Union of Divine Will with Human Liberty   1

1 – Of the Nature of Human Liberty   1
2 – Of the Eternity and Immutability of God’s Decrees, and
.           so far as Justification goes, in what way that which is
.           an Immanent Act in God may be Bound in Time, even
.           we are Justified by Faith    18
3 – Whether Contingencies are Subject to God’s Absolute
.          Decree, and in what way God’s Conditional, Disjunctive
.          and Congruent Decrees are Overthrown    68
4 – Contrary to Suarez, Vasquez, Molina, Lessius and
.          Fonseca, and above all Contrary to Jacob Arminius,
.          this is Explained by the Union of Contingency and
.          the Absolute Decree   105
5 – Contrary to the Same Jesuits and Arminians, the New
.          Fiction of a Middle or Conditional Knowledge of God is
.          Overthrown   187

Exercise 2 – Of Notions of the Divine Will   213

1 – Of God’s Revealed Will [Will of Sign] and His Decretive
.          Will [Will of Good-Pleasure]  213
2 – Arminius’ Argument: “That which everyone is bound
.          to believe is true […Therefore Christ is the Redeemer
.          of all], etc.” is Refuted.  Likewise, it is contended, contrary
.          to the Arminians, that God cannot disagree with His own
.          Purposes.  238
3 – Of the Antecedent and Consequent Will of God   323

Exercise 3 – Of the Temporal Actions of God in Human Liberty   363

1 – Whether  Free Will is Determined by God; whether Morally
.          or by the way of Physics, First Considered in Natural
.          Actions, and then of Gracious Actions   363
2 – Of the Efficacy of Grace, contrary to the Jesuits and
.          Arminians   395
3 – The Jesuits’ and Arminians’ Arguments against the
.          Predeterminate Efficacy of Grace are Countered   477
4 – The Monstrous Fiction of Congruent Calling is Rejected,
.          contrary to Suarez, Pedro da Fonseca and Bellarmine   502

Forbes, John – Historical & Theological Instructions on Christian Doctrine, the Varied State of Things, on the Errors & Controversies that have Arisen…  (Amsterdam, 1645)  Table of contents  This work was commended by Polyander, Trigland, Spanheim, Voet, Maets, Hoornbeeck, Cloppenburg, Coccejus and Maresius, as well as Gerhard Vossi, an Arminian.

Forbes (1593-1648) was one of the Aberdeen doctors.  He held to episcopacy, defended the Five Articles of Perth (which introduced five innovations in worship) and argued that the Scottish National Covenant (1638) was unlawful.

This work of his gained him the reputation of being one of the greatest theologians of the reformed Church.  The covenanters ‘acknowledged his orthodoxy and high Christian character’, according to the DNB.  Rutherford critiques him in Divine Right of Church Government (1646) on pp. 652-3 and in the Appendix on kneeling for the Lord’s Supper and the nature of indifferent matters and Church authority.  However Rutherford does not appear to critique him by name in any of his other works, even when Rutherford had the striking opportunity to on soteriology in his Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself (1647). 

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Fenner, Dudley – Sacred Theology, or Truth which Follows Piety   (Geneva, 1586)

Fenner (c. 1558–1587) was an English puritan divine and was one of the first theologians to use the term “covenant of works” to describe God’s relationship with Adam in the Book of Genesis.

Davenant, John – Determinations of Some Theological Questions  (Cambridge, 1634)  Table of Contents

This is not a systematic theology, but Davenant discusses 49 questions related to systematic issues.  Some other theological works of his are on PRDL.

Prideaux, John

All the Theological Works Extent in Latin  (Tigur, 1672)  Table of Contents comes after the Dedication and Preface

22 Selections in the Capital Heads of Religion…  (Oxford, 1648)  Table of Contents comes after ‘To the Reader’

A Bundle of Theological Controversies to Juniors…  (Oxford, 1649)  Table of Contents comes after the prefaces

Prideaux (1578–1650) was a reformed Anglican bishop and professor of theology.

Tully, Thomas – A Manual of the Principal Didactic Heads of Theology  (5th ed., Oxford, 1700)

Tully (1620-1676)

Baxter, Richard – A Method of Christian Theology  (London, 1681)

Baxter (1615–1691)  This Latin work, with his Christian Directory in English, was intended to comprise a whole body of divinity (the theological in Latin and the practical in English).  Note Baxter’s significant errors regarding Justification, the Covenant, the definition of Faith, the nature and extent of the Atonement, etc.

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Ames, William – The Marrow of Theology  (Amsterdam, 1634; 1659)  In English

Ames (1576-1633)

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Hungarian

Eszeki, Stephan – A Diary of Theology, or A Complete Theology in 20 Decades of Aphorisms.. (Claudiopoli, 1675) 97 pp.  There is a chart of the divisions of the whole work on the last page.

Eszeki (fl.1665-1675)

Szent-Gyorgy, Stephan – Theologia naturalis in usum auditorum suorum edita  (1784)  Table of contents

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