A14216:1042
The Sum of Christian Religion
The sum of Christian religion: delivered by Zacharias Ursinus in his lectures upon the Catechism authorised by the noble Prince Frederick, throughout his dominions: wherein are debated and resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment, which have been or are controversed in divinity. Translated into English by Henry Parry, out of the last & best Latin editions, together with some supply of wa[n]ts out of his discourses of divinity, and with correction of sundry faults & imperfections, which are [sic] as yet remaining in the best corrected Latin.The summe of Christian religion: deliuered by Zacharias Vrsinus in his lectures vpon the Catechism autorised by the noble Prince Frederick, throughout his dominions: wherein are debated and resolued the questions of whatsoeuer points of moment, which haue beene or are controuersed in diuinitie. Translated into English by Henrie Parrie, out of the last & best Latin editions, together with some supplie of wa[n]ts out of his discourses of diuinitie, and with correction of sundrie faults & imperfections, which ar [sic] as yet remaining in the best corrected Latine.
Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1587Oxford: printed by Ioseph Barnes, 1587
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IN one divine essence are subsisting three persons, 1and those truly distinct one from another by their properties; namely the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost; each of which three persons notwithstanding are one and the same God, eternal, infinite, & most perfect in himself. And these persons are consubstantial and coeternal, without any confounding of their properties and respects, as also without any disparagement, or inequality between them.
IN one diuine essence are subsisting three persons, 1and those truely distinct one from another by their properties; namely the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost; each of which three persons notwithstanding are one and the same God, eternal, infinit, & most perfect in himselfe. And these persons are consubstantiall and coeternal, without any confounding of their properties and respects, as also without anie disparagement, or inequalitie betweene them.
- 1Three persons are one God, and one God is three persons.
And that there are three persons, each of which are that one true God, creator of all things, is proved, first, by testimonies of Scripture, which are taken partly out of the old Testament, and partly out of the new. The old Testament yieldeth us many testimonies. Gen. 1.2. The spirit of God moved upon the waters: Then God said, let there be light. Exod. 3.2. The Lord is said to have appeared unto Moses in a flame of fire, out of the middest of a bush. Steven, Acts. 7.30. calleth him the Angel of the Lord, which is Christ the Son of God, even that Angel of the great counsel.