A14216:1093
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.
1That therefore both in times past there appeared oftentimes good Angels, when as the gathering and establishing of the Church, the doctrine of god being not as yet plainly delivered, and the prophecies not fulfilled, needed more extraordinary and miraculous revelations than now; and now a days also not seldom appear bad Angels: this first doth not prove their nature to be visible or corporal. For those visible shapes or bodies, which may be seen or felt, are divers substances from the incorporeal Essence of spirits, being formed either of nothing, or of some matter, and carried and moved by a spirit for a time for the working and performing of certain actions. For both they put them off and lay them away again, and also they take forms of divers sorts and kinds; as the Serpent by whom the Devil communed with Eve: Mens bodies, whose feet Abraham washed. Gen. 17. A flame in the bush appearing to Moses. Exod. 3. A pillar of cloud and fire in the desert: Horses and Chariots of fire. 2. King. 2. and 6.
1That therefore both in times past there appeared oftentimes good Angels, when as the gathering and establishing of the Church, the doctrine of god beeing not as yet plainelie deliuered, and the prophecies not fulfilled, needed more extraordinarie and miraculous reuelations than now; and now a daies also not seldome appeare bad Angels: this first doth not proue their nature to be visible or corporall. For those visible shapes or bodies, which may be seene or felt, are diuers substances from the incorporeall Essence of spirits, being formed either of nothing, or of some matter, and carried and moued by a spirite for a time for the woorking and performing of certaine actions. For both they put them off and lay them away againe, and also they take formes of diuers sortes and kinds; as the Serpent by whom the Diuel communed with Eue: Mens bodies, whose feete Abraham washed. Gen. 17. A flame in the bush appearing to Moses. Exod. 3. A piller of cloude and fier in the desert: Horses and Chariots of fier.