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THE LIVING THEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

Barbara Brown Zikmund Series Editor

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VOLUME TWO Roots Edited by John B. Payne

The Pilgrim Press Cleveland, Ohio Contents

The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ ix

Reformation Roots 1

Part L Late Medieval and Renaissance Piety and 37 1. The Book of the Craft of Dying (c. mid-15th century) 37 2. The Imitation of Christ (c. 1427) 51 THOMAS À KEMPIS 3. Eternal Predestination and Its Execution in Time (1517) 69 JOHN VON STAUPITZ 4.Paraclesis(1516) 86 DESIDERIUS

Part II. Reformation in , , and the 98 Netherlands and the German Reformation 5. The Freedom of a Christian (1520) 98 MARTIN LUTHER 6. Formula of and Communion for the Church 121 at Wittenberg (1523) MARTIN LUTHER 7. Hymn: Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee (1523) 137 MARTIN LUTHER 8. Small Catechism (1529) 140 MARTIN LUTHER 9. The Augsburg Confession (1530) 160

Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation 10. Sixty-Seven Articles (1523) 196 ULRICH ZWINGLI 11. Action or Use of the Lord's Supper (1525) 205 ULRICH ZWINGLI 12. The Schleitheim Confession of (1527) 214 13. The Marburg Colloquy (1529) 224 VI • CONTENTS

14. Sermon One, Decade One: Of the Word of God 248 from Decades (1549-51) HEINRICH BULLINGER

Calvin and the Genevan Reformation 15. The Law from Institution of the Christian Religion (1536) 266 16. The Confession (1536) 272 WILLIAM FAREL AND JOHN CALVIN 17. The Strasbourg Liturgy (1539) 280 18. The Form of Church Prayers and Hymns with the Manner of 295 Administering the Sacraments and Consecrating Marriage according to the Custom of the Ancient Church (Geneva, 1542; Strasbourg, 1545) JOHN CALVIN 19. Hymn: For Us Our God Is Firm Support (Psalm 46) (1539) 308 JOHN CALVIN 20. Draft Ecclesiastical Ordinances (1541) 312 JOHN CALVIN

The German Reformed Church and the Heidelberg Catechism 21. The Heidelberg Catechism (1563) 327 22. The Palatinate Liturgy (1563) 359

The Dutch Reformed Tradition and the Canons of Don 23. The Canons of Dort (1619) 377

Part III. The 397 Henry VIII Edward VI, and the Elizabethan Settlement 24. The (1559) 397 25. The (1560) 419

The Rise of Puritanism 26. The Form of Prayers (1556) 432 27. The Art of Prophesying (1592) 445 WILLIAM PERKINS CONTENTS • Vll

Separatist and Non-Separatist Perspectives 28. A Treatise of Reformation without Tarying for Anie (1582) 461 ROBERT BROWNE 29. Principles and Foundations of Christian Religion (1604 or 1605) 480 HENRY JACOB 30. A Just and Necessary Apology (1625) 492 JOHN ROBINSON 31. The Marrow of Theology (1629) 521 WILLIAM AMES 32. The Westminster Confession (1646) 552

Part IV. Lay Piety and Theology 574 33. Letter to the University of (1523) 574 34. A Conversation between an Evangelical Christian and a Lutheran 585 in Which the Offensive Behavior of Some Who Call Themselves Lutherans Is Exposed and Admonished in a Brotherly Spirit (1524) HANS SACHS 35. Katherine Schutz Zell's Foreword for Her Edition of the 603 Hymnbook of the Bohemian Brethren (1534-1536) KATHERINE SCHUTZ ZELL 36. The Sum of my examination before the King's Council at 609 Greenwich and The Ballad which Ann Askew Made and Sang when she was at Newgate (1546) ANNE ASKEW 37. Letter from John Careless to His Wife from 's 615 Actes and Monuments (1556) JOHN CARELESS 38. From the Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby (1599) 619 LADY MARGARET HOBY

Sources 636

Index 640

Scriptural Index 664