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Order of Contents
Articles 6+
Book 1
Quote 1
Lawful to Read 1
Latin 2
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Articles
1500’s
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – The Common Places… (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 1
‘An Exhortation to the Reading of the Holy Scriptures’ in 6. ‘Of the Holy Scriptures, and of the dignity and profit of them, and of the means how to understand them’, pp. 44-48
7. ‘Whether young and incontinent men, etc. should be excluded from hearing of the Word of God’ 52-58
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
3rd Commandment, ‘The name of God is contemned when his Word is negligently heard’ 57.b
‘Holy Scriptures’
Of the Reading of holy Scriptures 156.a
Of the profit of holy Scripture 159.b
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1600’s
Perkins, William
How a Man should Apply Aright the Word of God to his own Soul an appendix to A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600), pp. 663-66
The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience… (d. 1602; Cambridge: Legat, 1606), bk. 2, ch. 7
Question 1, How any man may profitably, to his own comfort and salvation, hear the Word of God?
Question 2, How are they to be comforted, who after long hearing of the Word, either profit very little or not at all?
Ames, William – ch. 8, ‘The Hearing of the Word’ in The Marrow of Theology tr. John D. Eusden (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 2, pp. 254-58
Ames (1576-1633) was an English, puritan, congregationalist, minister, philosopher and controversialist. He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the reformed and the Arminians. Voet highly commended Ames’s Marrow for learning theology.
Leigh, Edward – ch. 2. Of Ordinary Religious Duties; First, of Hearing the Word in A System or Body of Divinity… (London, A.M., 1654), bk. 8, pp. 607-9
Turretin, Francis – 18. ‘Can the Scriptures be profitably read by any believer, and ought he to read them without permission? We affirm against the papists.’ in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1992), vol. 1, 2nd Topic, pp. 147-49
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Book
1900’s
Reisinger, Ernest – Many Verses!
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Quote
1700’s
Wilhelmus à Brakel
Christian’s Reasonable Service, 1:81
“The reflection upon reading Scripture consists in
(1) joyfully giving thanks that the Lord has permitted His Word to be recorded, that we may have it in our homes, that we can and were privileged to read it, and that it was applied to our heart;
(2) painstakingly striving to preserve this good spiritual frame which is obtained by reading God’s Word;
(3) meditating while engaged in one’s occupation upon that which one has read, repeatedly seeking to focus his thoughts upon it;
(4) sharing with others what was read, whenever possible, and discussing it;
(5) especially striving to comply with what was read by bringing it into practice.
If the Holy Scriptures were used in such a fashion, what wondrous progress we would make in both knowledge and godliness! Children would soon become young men, and young men would soon become men in Christ Jesus.”
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It is Lawful for Laymen to Read Scripture
Article
1500’s
de Brès, Guy – ‘Of the Holy Scripture, and how it is Lawful for All Men to Read it’ in The Staff of Christian Faith… for to Know the Antiquity of our Holy Faith… gathered out of the Works of the Ancient Doctors of the Church… (d. 1567; London, 1577), pp. 293-340
de Bres (1522-1567) was a Walloon pastor, Protestant reformer and theologian, a student of Calvin and Beza in Geneva.
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Latin Articles
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert
7. Reading of Sacred Scripture in Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 1, tract 1 Abbr.
‘On the use & abuse of the divine name in the reading, hearing and application of Scripture, in the perception of the sacraments and public and private prayers’ in Select Theological Disputations, vol. 4 (Utrecht, 1667), 50. ‘A Syllabus of Questions on the Decalogue’, ‘On the 3rd Commandment’, p. 783
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