A14216:1102
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.
Of evil spirits or Angels.
Of euil spirits or Angels.
THEY which now are evil spirits or Angels, although they also were at their creation good, and adorned by God with the same holiness, and righteousness, and blessedness, wherewith the rest were: yet notwithstanding by their own will, & that free, & therefore by their own fault, they averted themselves from GOD, and revolted from his love and from obedience due unto him, so that they left the habitation of God, and no longer continued their conformity with God, but ever burn with a horrible hatred of GOD and men, and, that they may despite GOD, force men to sin, and by force and sleights attempt to cast all down head-long into destruction. 2. Pet. 2.4. God spared not the Angels that had sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept unto damnation. And Jude. The Angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day. Joh 8.44. Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the trueth. When he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. 1. John 3.8. He that committeth sin, is of the Devil: for the Devil sinneth from the beginning. John 13. Satan entered into Judas. Acts 5. Satan filled Ananias heart, that he should lie unto the holy Ghost, and keep away part of the price of the possession. Ephes. 2. According to the course of this world, and after the Prince that ruleth in the air, the spirit, that now worketh in the children of disobedience. 2. Thessal. 2. it is said of Antichrist: Whose coming is by the working of Satan with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and in all deceivableness of unrighteousness among them that perish, because they received not the love of the trueth, that they might be saved. And therefore he is called the wicked,