Religion and the rise of capitalism

by R. H. Tawney

[56] The Works of William Laud, D.D., ed. Wm. Scott, vol. vi, pt. i, 1857, p. 213.

[57] De Subventione Pauperum.

[58] “Quod ad maiores natu spectat, a nobis quotannis repetitur inspectio cuiusque familiæ. Distribuimus inter nos urbis regiones, ut ordine singulas decurias executere liceat. Adest ministro comes unus ex senioribus. Illic novi incolæ examinantur. Qui semel recepti sunt, omittuntur; nisi quod requiritur sitne domus pacata et recte composita, num lites cum vicinis, num qua ebrietas, num pigri sint et ignari ad conciones frequentendas” (quoted by Wiskemann, op. cit., p. 80 n.). For his condemnation of indiscriminate almsgiving, see ibid., p. 79 n.

[59] De non habendo Pauperum Delectu (1523), and De Erogatione Eleemosynarum (1524). See K. R. Hagenbach, Johann Oekolampad und Oswald Myconius, die Reformatoren Basels, 1859, p. 46.

[60] Carl Pestallozzi, Heinrich Bullinger, Leben und ausgewählte Schriften, 1858, pp. 50-1, 122-5, 340-2.

[61] Wiskemann, op. cit., pp. 70-4.

[62] Quoted by Preserved Smith, The Age of the Reformation, 1921, p. 174.

[63] Calvin, Inst., bk. iv, ch. xii, par. 1.

[64] Printed in Paul Henry, Das Leben Johann Calvins, vol. ii, 1838, Appx., pp. 26-41.

[65] R. Christoffel, Zwingli, or the Rise of the Reformation in Switzerland, trans. by John Cochran, 1858, pp. 159-60.